Quinn Palacios Cruz, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

INTRODUCTION Petitioner Quinn Cruz was tried and convicted of capital murder in September 2007. He was automatically sentenced to life without parole. On direct appeal, the capital murder conviction was reversed, the judgment was reformed to murder, and the case remanded to trial for punsihment only. On remand, Petitioner was sentenced to life in prison and fined $10,000 in October 2013. Petitioner alleged in his state and federal habeas corpus applications that he received the ineffective assistance of counsel at the gui1t-innocence trial and later at the punishment trial. Moreover, Petitioner alleged that his trial attorneys at the punishment stage had labored under a conflict of interest. In addition, Petitioner asserts that the U.S. district court and Circuit Court had erred, inter alia , by not addressing and correctly applying the correct methodology that was adopted by this Court. I. Whether the Cuy1er test for ineffective assistance of counsel due to conflict of interest applies to individual cases of representation and not only to multiple representation cases? II . Whether the U.S. district courts and circuit courts are obligated to apply the correct methdology of review adopted by this Court? -4 i-