· 3/11/1993
Bradford Wedra v. Eugene S. Lefevre, Warden, Clinton Correctional Facility
Citations
- 988 F.2d 334
- 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 4548
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that one-judge order denying as untimely petitioner’s motion for leave to appeal constitutes adequate state ground barring habeas review
- test is whether the court has “good reason to question whether there is an independent and adequate state ground for the decision”
- “[w]e are not convinced that simply because New York law allows some discretion to be exercised in the granting of extensions that a dismissal on the basis of untimeliness does not constitute an adequate procedural bar”
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Judges: Meskill, Lumbard, Winter
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