Sixth Circuit· 5/26/1998

Fred Harry Rogers v. Carol Howes

Citations

144 F.3d 990
1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 10412
1998 WL 260297

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holding that state court rule was not firmly established rule and regularly followed where substance of rule precluding relief on grounds that could have been pursued on direct appeal was not established until after petitioner’s conviction
holding that state court rule was not firmly established rule and regularly followed where substance of rule precluding relief on grounds that could have been pursued on direct appeal was not established until after petitioner's conviction
explaining that a state procedural rule is adequate and independent if it “was firmly established and regularly followed by the time as of which it was to be applied”
“[T]he question is not whether the state courts consistently apply the procedural bar in the present.”

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Judges: Boggs, Moore, Farris

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