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• holding that the relevant time period for determining whether a procedural rule was firmly established and 28 regularly followed by state courts is “the time of purported procedural default”
• concluding that the California Supreme Court’s order was ambiguous because it did not “specify which of [petitioner’s] thirty nine-claims the court rejected under [one cited state doctrine], and which it rejected under [another cited state doctrine]”
• applying Morales to find no procedural default when state habeas petition was filed nine months after Clark became final
• applying Morales to find no procedural default when state habeas petition was filed nine months after Clark became final
• evaluating the Dixon rule “at the time Bean filed his direct appeal”
• citation and internal quotation 1 to bar federal habeas review because, even if discretionary, it can still be “firmly 2 established” and “regularly followed.” Beard v. Kindler, 558 U.S. 53, 60–61 (2009

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).