Lucas v. Secretary, Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Simply referring to a ‘constitutional right of confrontation of witnesses’ is not a sufficient reference to a federal claim . . . .”
• “To ‘fairly present’ a claim, the petitioner is not required to cite ‘book and verse on the federal constitution.’”
• “In other words, ‘to exhaust state remedies fully the petitioner must make the state court aware that the claims asserted present federal constitutional issues.’”
• “[W]e review de 13 Case: 12-14706 Date Filed: 04/29/2015 Page: 14 of 38 novo a district court’s ruling on a procedural bar question.”
• “In other words, ‘to exhaust state remedies fully the petitioner must make the state court aware that the claims asserted present federal constitutional issues.’”
• “In other words, ‘to exhaust state remedies fully the petitioner must make the state court aware that the claims asserted present federal constitutional issues.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).