Burks, Jr. v. Duboise

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• reviewing de novo question of whether state court's __ limited review of petitioner's claim for miscarriage of justice effected a waiver
• “If inadvertence of counsel, without more, were deemed to constitute sufficient cause, the cause requirement would be reduced to little more than a speed bump on the road to a federal forum”
• failure to object to prosecutor's misstatement of evidence at closing precludes habeas review
• procedural requirement must be “consistently applied” to bar habeas review
• setting forth standard for procedurally barred claims
• “[P]etitioner's recreation of what transpired in the state trial court shows, at most, that there was a legitimate jury question as to his guilt, and that the prosecutor placed her thumb on the scales of justice at one point. This is not enough to qualify for extraordinary relief. . . .”

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