Kenneth D. Oxborrow, Petitioner-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Kenneth O. Eikenberry, Norman Carlson, Respondents-Appellants/cross-Appellees

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• recognizing an exception to this rule in the context of federal habeas corpus where the state court’s interpretation of state law “is untenable or amounts to a subterfuge to avoid federal review of a constitutional violation” (citation omitted)
• “An unforeseeable, albeit legitimate, construction of a state law by the courts may not be retroactively applied to a defen- dant.”
• “[E]rrors of state law do not 4 concern us unless they rise to the level of a constitutional violation”

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