Allen Levi Monroe v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

On May 11, 1981, petitioner-appellant Allen Levi Monroe (Monroe) was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in a Texas court and was sentenced to the maximum term of twenty years’ imprisonment. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed his conviction and sentence on April 3, 1985. Monroe v. State, 689 S.W.2d 450 (Tex.Crim.App.1985). He later filed in federal district court the instant petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, contending that he was denied due process by the jury’s consideration, in its deliberations at the punishment phase of his trial,…