John Richard Marek v. Harry K. Singletary

How courts have described this case

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• finding that when a state court addresses both the independent state procedural ground and the merits, the federal court should apply the bar and decline to reach the merits
• given the overwhelming evidence against the petitioner, “evidence of an 25 abusive and difficult childhood would have been entitled to little, if any, mitigating weight”
• “Given the particular circumstances of this case and the overwhelming evidence against Marek, evidence of an abusive and difficult childhood would have been entitled to little, if any, mitigating weight.”
• “Issues not clearly raised in the briefs are considered abandoned.”
• “Issues not clearly raised in the briefs are considered abandoned.”
• “Issues not clearly raised in the briefs are considered abandoned.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).