Gaylor v. Harrelson

How courts have described this case

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• dismissal without prejudice for failure to exhaust, where claim is of ineffective assistance of trial and appellate counsel
• “the test is whether it is ‘perfectly clear’ that the petitioner has failed to state ‘even a colorable claim.’ ”
• court should dismiss without prejudice if “only a cursory examination of [petitioner’s] claims ... arouses the slightest suspicion that the claims have merit”

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