Juan Rodriguez v. Eugene McAdory

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• holding that the state court’s plain error review of the petitioner’s claims “did not undo his procedural default”
• concluding state law procedural ruling is independent for federal habeas pur‐ poses unless it was “entirely dependent on the merits”
• “Although a state court’s review of whether an error is ‘plain’ often entails at least limited review of the merits, that limited review is at most ‘entangled’ with the merits and certainly not ‘entirely dependent on the merits.”

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