Gerald Wayne Tigner v. Janie Cockrell, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:

Gerald Wayne Tigner (“Tigner”), a death row inmate, seeks a certificate of appealability (“COA”) to challenge the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition. Tigner has failed to make a substantial showing of the denial of his constitutional rights because Supreme Court and Fifth Circuit precedents foreclose all of his arguments. We deny the COA.

The case arises from a violent and fatal altercation on a suburban street in Waco, Texas. While on bail for a separate murder indictment, Tigner was driving a truck with his friend Guan Scott…