Couture v. Lopes

How courts have described this case

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• procedural default may bar petitioner from raising claim in federal habeas corpus proceedings
• “[T]he few cases that respondent and the dissent cite as ignoring procedural defaults do not convince us that the Florida Supreme Court fails to apply its procedural rule regularly and consistently.” Id. 489 U.S. at 411 n. 6, 109 S.Ct. at 1217-18 n. 6.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).