1. Whether the CCA's otherwise unexplained ruling that abuse of the writ under Article 11.071, § 5, precluded post-conviction relief is an adequate and independent state-law ground for the judgment, where the CCA's application of abuse of the writ is interwoven with federal law?

2. Whether this case should be held pending this Court's decision in Cruz v. Arizona?

3. Whether this Court should remand this case to the Texas courts with instructions to consider the merits of the claims of a juror's racial bias and misconduct?

Whether the CCA's otherwise unexplained ruling that abuse of the writ under Article 11.071, § 5, precluded post-conviction relief is an adequate and independent state-law ground for the judgment, where the CCA's application of abuse of the writ is interwoven with federal law