Fred Harry Rogers v. Carol Howes

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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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