Johnnie E. Stafford v. Murray Metallurgical Holdings

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• holding that showing of actual prejudice necessary to overcome procedural 8 waiver arising from failure to object to structural error at trial
• holding that showing of actual prejudice necessary to overcome procedural waiver arising from failure to object to structural error at trial
• recognizing abstention in the context of the habeas corpus statute where \considerations of comity and concerns for the orderly administration of criminal justice require\
• stating that the state court had held that the constitutional claim of the petitioner had been waived
• requiring “not only a showing of ‘cause’ for the defendant’s failure to challenge the composition of the grand jury before trial, but also a showing of actual prejudice”
• applying Davis to a state defendant who failed to make a timely challenge to the composition of the grand jury

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