Jesse Joseph Deters v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Dept. Of Criminal Justice Institution Division

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• holding the exhaustion requirement may be excused only in “rare cases where exceptional circumstances of peculiar urgency mandate federal court interference”
• exhaustion requirement is satisfied when the substance of a federal habeas corpus claim has been fairly presented to the highest state court
• “[C]ourts are to excuse noncompliance with the exhaustion doctrine only if the inordinate delay is wholly and completely the fault of the state.” (emphasis in original)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).