Christopher Taft Landers v. Warden

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a habeas petitioner may be entitled to a federal evidentiary hearing if he overcomes his burden under § 2254(d)(1)
• stating that even with liberal construction of pro se petitions, courts “will not infer a claim out of thin air”
• holding the state court’s “[credibility] determination was not unreasonable” even though the state court and the district court failed to hold an evidentiary hearing
• finding pro se petitioner’s claim not exhausted when no supporting cases were cited and no reference to the Fourteenth Amendment or Due Process was made
• “[T]he petitioner has waived this claim.... he failed to present this claim before the district court.”
• “The interaction between [§ 2254](d)(2) and (e)(1) . . . is an open question in this circuit.”

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