George Hughes v. James Stafford, Sheriff and Jailer of Whitfield County, Georgia

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• refusing to excuse exhaustion despite an eight-year delay in ruling on a state habeas petition
• “[I]t would be inappropriate to waive the exhaustion requirement where the petitioner has a viable state procedure available at the same time he files his federal petition.”
• “[I]t would be inappropriate to waive the exhaustion requirement where the petitioner has a 1 The Court takes judicial notice of Claudio’s state court docket. See Fed. R. Evid. 201(b)(2). See also Paez v. Sec’y, Fla. Dep’t of Corr., 947 F.3d 649 (11th Cir. 2020

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