EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:
Louisiana Attorney General James D. Caldwell ("the State") appeals the district court's order granting the habeas corpus petition filed by Defendant-Appellee Clint Martinez ("Martinez"). Martinez's first murder trial ended in a declaration of mistrial. When the State sought to retry him on the murder charge, Martinez moved to prevent the trial under the doctrine of Double Jeopardy. His motion was granted, but reversed on appeal. Martinez then filed for federal habeas and the State stayed Martinez's prosecution pending the disposition of his federal petition. For the reasons discussed below, we VACATE the district court's order and DENY Martinez's habeas petition.
In 2002, the State tried Martinez for second-degree murder in a three-week trial that included testimony from twelve experts and forty other witnesses, including Martinez. After three hours of deliberations, the jury summoned the state trial judge, Judge James J. Best ("Judge Best"), to the jury room. After receiving no objections from counsel, Judge Best entered the jury room, jurors immediately informed him they could not reach a verdict, and jurors stated that the vote was deadlocked at nine to three in favor of acquittal.
When Martinez learned that the State intended to retry him on the murder charge, he moved to quash the indictment on the ground that a second trial would subject him to double jeopardy. The Louisiana Supreme Court assigned Judge Jerome M. Winsberg ("Judge Winsberg") as judge ad hoc to preside over the hearing on the motion. Following a two day evidentiary hearing, Judge Winsberg concluded that Judge Best had acted "improperly" in failing to disclose to counsel the full details of his interaction with the jury and that by failing to provide the direction of the jury's vote, Judge Best had "inadvertently goaded [the defense] to ask for the mistrial." State v. Martinez, 05-466, p. 8 (La.App. 1 Cir. 7/26/06); 934 So.2d 981 (internal quotations omitted). The State appealed Judge Winsberg's decision to Louisiana's First Circuit Court of Appeals. Citing the Supreme Court's holding in Oregon v. Kennedy, 456 U.S. 667, 676, 102 S.Ct. 2083, 72 L.Ed.2d 416 (1982), the First Circuit explained that "inadvertent provocation" is not sufficient to bar retrial. Martinez, 05-466, p. 8. Rather, the state appellate court concluded that Kennedy requires the petitioner to show "a deliberate, intentional act by the court of goading the defendant into moving for a mistrial." Id. The appellate court held that Judge Best's behavior, while perhaps improper, was not intended to provoke a mistrial, and thus, Judge Winsberg had erred in granting Martinez's motion.
After exhausting his remedies in the Louisiana courts, Martinez sought habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241.
Before we consider whether the district court correctly granted Martinez's petition, we must evaluate whether that court erred by reviewing Martinez's § 2241 petition de novo. The State argues that we should review § 2241 petitions with the same deference that we give habeas corpus petitions filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. This issue presents a question of first impression for our circuit.
For habeas petitions filed under § 2254, we must presume that a state court correctly determined questions of fact and we must give deference "to the state court's decision unless it `was based
As a pretrial detainee, however, Martinez's habeas petition is governed by § 2241. Section 2241 does not contain a standard of review, but the First, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits have all held that § 2254(d) deference never applies to habeas petitions brought by pretrial detainees under § 2241. See Walck v. Edmondson, 472 F.3d 1227, 1234-35 (10th Cir.2007); Stow v. Murashige, 389 F.3d 880, 885-88 (9th Cir.2004); Gonzalez v. Justices of the Mun. Court of Boston, 382 F.3d 1, 5-6 (1st Cir.2004), rev'd on other grounds, 544 U.S. 918, 125 S.Ct. 1640, 161 L.Ed.2d 474 (2005). We agree with those circuits' holdings. The deferential standard afforded to state court decisions, which is specifically articulated in § 2254, is not included in the text of § 2241. Compare § 2254(d) with § 2241; see also Walck, 472 F.3d at 1234 ("the language of § 2254 clearly indicates that its provisions are only operable as to a petition for habeas relief" filed by a post-trial petitioner). In addition, when Congress amended § 2254(d) in 1996 amid sweeping habeas reform, it did not similarly amend § 2241. "[I]t is generally presumed that Congress acts intentionally and purposely when it includes particular language in one section of a statute but omits it in another." City of Chicago v. Env't Def. Fund, 511 U.S. 328, 338, 114 S.Ct. 1588, 128 L.Ed.2d 302 (1994) (internal quotations and citations omitted). Finally, § 2254(d) was designed to impose additional burdens on post-conviction habeas petitioners and to effect the gatekeeping function of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA). See Sepulveda v. United States, 330 F.3d 55, 66 (1st Cir.2003). There is no similar evidence that AEDPA or § 2254 were intended to impact pre-trial detainees or § 2241.
The State asks us to break from these other circuits, arguing that the rationale for differentiating between § 2241 and § 2254(d) for deference purposes ceases once a state court has fully adjudicated "precisely the same claim now brought in federal" court. This argument is unavailing. The plain language of the statutes clearly demonstrates that § 2254 is textually distinct from § 2241: one explicitly mandates deference, the other does not. In addition, Congress enacted AEDPA, as it related to habeas reform, to "curb the abuse of the statutory writ of habeas corpus," and to "address problems of unnecessary delay." Caldwell v. Dretke, 429 F.3d 521, 528 (5th Cir.2005) (internal quotations and citations omitted). Nothing in § 2241, or its legislative history, indicates that Congress perceived a problem, or a need to address similar habeas abuses under § 2241. Thus, the district court did not err by conducting a de novo review of Martinez's state court proceedings and we apply the same standard when reviewing his petition under § 2241.
The State argues that the district court erred by concluding that under Kennedy, Judge Best intentionally goaded the defense into requesting a mistrial. We agree.
The Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause protects a criminal defendant
When the defense moves for, or consents to, a mistrial, the Double Jeopardy Clause may bar retrial if the government "intended to goad the defendant" into requesting a mistrial. See United States v. Wharton, 320 F.3d 526, 531 (5th Cir.2003) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). But this standard is exacting. Government misconduct "that might be viewed as harassment or overreaching, even if sufficient to justify a mistrial on defendant's motion ... does not bar retrial." Kennedy, 456 U.S. at 675-76, 102 S.Ct. 2083. Not even the government's "gross negligence" would prevent a retrial of the defendant. Robinson v. Wade, 686 F.2d 298, 306 & n. 17 (5th Cir.1982). Instead, the Double Jeopardy clause bars retrial only when "bad faith conduct by judge or prosecutor threatens harassment of an accused ... so as to afford the prosecution a more favorable opportunity to convict the defendant." Dinitz, 424 U.S. at 611, 96 S.Ct. 1075. A prosecutor or judge must specifically act in "bad faith" or must intend to goad the defendant "into requesting a mistrial or to prejudice the defendant's prospects for an acquittal." Id. at 611-12, 96 S.Ct. 1075.
In this case, we do not need to decide whether Judge Best should have notified the parties of the direction of the jury's verdict. This is because the critical inquiry is what Judge Best intended to accomplish by intentionally withholding the direction of the jury's vote. The district court concluded that Judge Best's intent was illustrated by his "admission that he withheld the direction [of the jury vote] because he thought that if he revealed it the defense would not request a mistrial." Martinez v. Caldwell, No. 08-617, 2010 WL 1385024, at *3 (M.D.La. Mar. 29, 2010). This conclusion relied on a single-word answer from Judge Best's testimony during the evidentiary hearing.
The district court concluded that the specific facts of what transpired at the sidebar conferences were "irrelevant; what matters is that Judge Best withheld information and the defense agreed to a mistrial." This analysis, however, is erroneous. The gravamen of this case are the sidebar conferences. The fact that Judge Best withheld information is secondary to why he withheld that information. In answering that question, the district court's analysis never moved beyond the Judge Best's single-word "admission." That "admission" came summarily near the end of a lengthy cross-examination in which Judge Best was, at times, inarticulate. In light of Judge Best's entire testimony, his answer to this lone question appears to be a rote "yes," not an admission of a bad faith conduct or an intent "to harass or prejudice" the defendant. Dinitz, 424 U.S. at 611, 96 S.Ct. 1075.
For the reasons discussed above, we VACATE the district court's order and we DENY Martinez's petition for habeas relief.