Jones v. Sussex I State Prison

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• explaining that § 2254 's exhaustion requirement means that a state prisoner must have first presented his claim before every available state court
• “Because procedural default constitutes an affirmative defense in habeas cases, the burden rests with a state to prove the adequacy of the relied-on procedural bar.”

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