Nevin G. Sweger, Jr. v. Joseph W. Chesney District Attorney of the County of Cumberland Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania

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• noting that the burden lies with a petitioner to demonstrate circumstances that would excuse a procedural default
• referring to the “incident which [Scott’s] been convict ed of’
• rejecting the “confusing and impractical claim-by-claim approach”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).