Carl Wayne Vaughan v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections

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• earlier failure to raise issue was because petitioner did not then have the assistance of counsel
• “The applicant is to be afforded a reasonable opportunity to traverse the suggestion of abuse.”
• where pro se habeas petitioner was ignorant of the legal significance of an issue, excusable failure to raise the issue in an initial habeas petition is possible

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