Buckner v. Davis, No. 17-50891 (5th Cir. 2019)
Annotate this CaseThe Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of federal habeas relief for petitioner, who was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child. The court held that the district court did not err in concluding that petitioner failed to show that the state court's denial of his claim of actual juror bias was contrary to or an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law. The court also held that this case, like Uranga v. Davis, 893 F.3d 282, 288 (5th Cir. 2018), cert. denied, 139 S. Ct. 1179 (2019), was outside the "extreme genre of cases" that would warrant revisiting whether this court recognizes the implied-bias doctrine as clearly established law.
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