Marlon Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director

672 F. App'x 449

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• Decided: December 29, 2016
• Docket: 14-20543
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

PER CURIAM: *

IT IS ORDERED that Appellee Lorie Davis’s unopposed motion to cancel oral argument is GRANTED.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Ap-pellee Lorie Davis’s unopposed motion to waive the exhaustion requirement pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(3) with respect to those claims that were raised in Appellant Marlon Dantruce Williams’s state ha-beas application is GRANTED.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the district court’s judgment is VACATED, and this case is REMANDED to the district court to review Appellant Marlon Dantruce Williams’s federal habeas application on the merits with respect to those claims that were raised in Appellant’s state habeas application. This is a full remand. We place no limit on the matters that the district court may address, as needed, and we express no view on what rulings that court should make.

* Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the' limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.