Lynn Brooks v. Jonathan R. Walls, Warden, Menard Correctional Center

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• concluding that “[a] state does not abandon the benefits of [the independent and adequate state ground] doctrine by allowing plain-error review”
• not- ing that “it is settled (at least in this circuit) that a plain- error exception to a procedural rule does not compromise that rule’s quality as an independent ground of decision”

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