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· 8/28/1996

Gary Graham v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

Citations

  • 94 F.3d 958
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 22686
  • 1996 WL 490334

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that a court of appeals has discretion to require exhaustion of state court remedies despite state’s waiver of the requirement
  • finding no exhaustion in the case because petitioner did present significant new facts in his federal petition
  • rejecting the state’s waiver on exhaustion where it simply wanted to avoid further politicization of Graham’s case
  • finding no exhaustion 428 in the case because petitioner did present significant new facts 429 in his federal petition
  • “[A] habeas petitioner fails to exhaust state remedies when he presents material additional evidentiary support to the federal court that was not presented to the state court.”
  • \exhaustion is not required if it would plainly be futile\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: King, Garwood, Jolly

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