Alexander William Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division
Whether a 1½-page order that su mmarily denies a certificate of appealability
without any analysis of the facts and the law in a murder case satisfies the requirement
of Buck v. Davis , ___U.S.___, 137 S.Ct. 759, 197 L.Ed.2d 1 (2017) that the cour t of
appeals determine if "jurists of reason could disagree with the district court's
resolution of [the applicant' s] constitutional claims or . . . could conclude the issues
presented are adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed furt her" in a habeas case?
Whether a 1'4-page order that summarily denies a certificate of appealability satisfies the requirement of Buck v. Davis