Keating v. New York

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “reasonable confusion” refers to situations where a petitioner who, while trying in good faith to exhaust state remedies, is “confused [about] whether his claims were properly exhausted in state court”
• 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b)(2)’s “rationale is to spare state courts from needlessly wasting their judicial resources on addressing meritless claims solely for the sake of exhaustion.”
• “[D]istrict courts have relied on [Pace] to find good cause . . . where the petitioner was confused as to whether [her] claims were properly exhausted in state court.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).