Dennis Mark La Crosse,petitioner-Appellant v. Peggy Kernan, Warden Attorney Generalof the State Ofcalifornia

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• state law “fundamental constitutional error” exception for procedural bars necessarily requires an antecedent ruling; state procedural bar is therefore not “independent” of federal law
• “The Court ... has never addressed 23 whether readback of testimony to a jury is a ‘critical stage of the trial’ triggering a criminal 24 defendant’s fundamental right to be present”

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