Curtis Henderson v. James Thieret, Warden of the Menard Correctional Center and Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General of the State of Illinois

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• indicating that State explicitly waived proce- dural default by expressly declining to raise it even at the district court’s invitation
• applying second prong of Strickland to attorney's lack of preparation in connection with sentencing
• hold- ing that a court is not permitted to override the State’s implicit or explicit decision to forego a waiver defense
• “[I]t is one thing to omit [a] defense altogether in the district court and quite another to 5 “[T]he peculiar abrasiveness of official intrusions” into people’s homes late at night has long been recognized. United States v. Ravich, 421 F.2d 1196, 1201 (2d Cir. 1970

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