Fifth Circuit: Jerry Hartfield v. Frank Osborne, Sheriff

Habeas

When a state prisoner's speedy trial Federal Habeas claim shifts from a pretrial Habeas to a postconviction Habeas during the pendency of the appeal, the appeals court must dismiss for lack of jurisdiction.

(The only issue in the COA was the threshold question of whether the pretrial Habeas standard for state exhaustion was met.)

http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/15/15-20275-CV0.pdf