Dan Epps

Yeah, I mean, you know, I will say I think the point is fair that the court has maybe arguably gotten too aggressive with these.

Right.

The petitioner here, Howell, has apparently filed only six petitions.

Whereas if you go back to Martin himself had apparently filed 54 petitions.

And I just I kind of wonder, you know, whether, you know, for someone who's filed six, even if they're frivolous.

I mean, how much of a burden is that really imposing on the court?

You know, I mean, these are getting denied kind of.

A clerk writes a, you know, three line memo and then it gets denied.

I mean, it's not obvious to me that it that it actually imposes that much more burden on the court.

And so it kind of seems like the reason to do this is like you're mad at these prisoners for filing these frivolous things.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I think that, you know, she seems to want to have a blanket rule that we don't do this to prisoners because, you know, she says, look, there's cases where, you know, we've granted cert and IFP petitioners and they had meritorious claims.

And that's certainly true.

And, you know, the question is, would stuff slip through?

I mean, it maybe suggests to me that.

We might want to calibrate the rule a little bit.

Maybe you get 10.

You think it's relative to when?