Castro Flores v. Dretke

PER CURIAM: *

Serento ** Flores Castro (“Flores”), who is currently incarcerated as a state prisoner in Texas (# 925694), has filed a motion for a certificate of appealability (“COA”) and a motion to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”) on appeal from the district court’s denial of his habeas corpus petition, purportedly filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 but construed by the district court as sounding under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Flores is serving a seven-year state prison term for aggravated assault on a public servant, a sentence that is running concurrently with several other state sentences.…