Melissa Elizabeth Lucio v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division
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1. Whether, as the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits have held, this Court's cases clearly establish a complete-defense right that can be violated by the arbitrary and disproportionate application of a general evidentiary standard when it infringes a weighty interest of the accused such as explaining why she falsely confessed, or as the Fifth Circuit held in this case, there is no clearly established federal law applicable to such a ruling.
Whether the exclusion of defense evidence that could have cast doubt on the defendant's false confession violated the defendant's clearly established right to present a complete defense