Danny Eugene Esslinger v. Leoneal Davis, Warden Attorney General of the State of Alabama

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• holding that the lower court’s sua sponte invocation of procedural default served no important federal interest under the circumstances
• “We do not hold that an attorney who recommends a blind plea inherently fails to perform as required by the Sixth Amendment.”
• “The state can waive a procedural bar to relief by explicitly waiving, or by merely failing to assert, the bar in its answer to the habeas petition.”

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