Commonwealth v. Harbold, N.

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• holding that “a conviction for murder is a final judgment even when the death penalty sentence has been reversed and is not yet final”
• holding that a 15-year 21 delay in which the petitioner was denied the opportunity to establish the unconstitutionality of his conviction on appeal was an extraordinary circumstance that warranted federal habeas review
• finding it appropriate to consider a habeas petition while state criminal 24 proceedings were pending where fifteen years had passed without a re-trial and there was “there 25 [was] no end in sight” as to the delay

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