1. If a state court does not specify the grounds of an order denying
postconviction relief, and if one of the several potential grounds depends on federal law,
may the Court presume that the decision was unsupported by adequate and independent
state grounds?

2. Did the TCCA err in refusing to authorize a postconviction application that
raised meritorious federal-law claims, and for which there was no adequate and
independent state ground for denial?

Whether a state court's unexplained denial of a postconviction relief application can be presumed to lack adequate and independent state grounds when federal law may have influenced the decision