Charles Gordon Breazeale v. R. M. Bradley, Warden, and Attorney General of the State of Florida

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• holding a state remedy ineffective where “the state habeas petition has been completely dormant for over one year” and where the state offered no reason for the delay
• excusing exhaustion where state habeas application had been “completely dormant for over one year, and the state has offered us no reason for its torpor”
• excusing noncompliance with exhaustion requirement when the state action had been “completely dormant for over one year” and the state provided “no reason for its torpor”
• state corrective process ineffective where the state 3 habeas petition was dormant for over a year and the state offered us no reason for the delay
• “Breazeale’s state habeas petition has been completely dormant for over one year, and the state has offered us no reason for its tor- por. Under these circumstances, the unexplained delay requires us to say that the state remedy is ineffective.”

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