Lewis v. Dretke

Petitioner-Appellant Andre Anthony Lewis appeals the district court’s second denial of his petition for habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. On appeal from the district court’s first denial of Lewis’s petition for habeas relief, we vacated that ruling insofar as it denied relief on Lewis’s claims of ineffective assistance of counsel during the punishment phase of his murder trial, and we remanded the case to the district court with instructions to conduct a full evidentiary hearing on those claims. After conducting such an evidentiary hearing, the district court again denied…