James Lowery v. Warren Young

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• allowing petitioner to make claim on appeal that was first raised in traverse in response to state's argument
• constitutional challenge to enhanced sentence requires showing that there is a “positive and demonstrable nexus” between prior conviction and current custody
• prisoner stated claim cognizable under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 where he alleged that he was serving a state sentence that had been enhanced in reliance on an invalid prior state conviction
• district court had jurisdiction to consider habeas corpus petition relating to a prior conviction for which the petitioner was no longer in custody where that conviction was used to enhance a subsequent prison sentence that the petitioner was then serving

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