Bates v. Whitley

How courts have described this case

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• concluding, pre-AEDPA, that denial of a claim due to “state procedural default and a failure to show cause and prejudice must be regarded as a determination on the merits”
• procedural convincing evidence that, but for constitutional default for failure to comply with state’s contemporaneous error, no reasonable factfinder would have found the objection rule
• “A federal habeas court’s rejection of a petitioner’s constitutional claim because of state procedural default and a failure to show cause and prejudice must be regarded as a determination on the merits in examining whether a subsequent petition is successive.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).