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· 3/31/1982

Ernest Lee Wade v. A. L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

Citations

  • 674 F.2d 721
  • 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 20548

How courts have described this case

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  • vacating dismissal based on failure to exhaust where postconviction petition had been pending in state court over two years
  • directing the district court to consider a habeas petitioner’s claims on the merits if the state court did not rule on the petitioner’s state petition within 60 days where the state court had already delayed ruling on the petition for over two years

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Judges: Heaney, Henley, McMIL-LIAN

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