Supreme Court· 6/7/1999

O'Sullivan v. Boerckel

Citations

526 U.S. 838
119 S. Ct. 1728
144 L. Ed. 2d 1
1999 U.S. LEXIS 4003

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holding that a state prisoner must exhaust discre- tionary state post-conviction remedies be- fore seeking federal habeas relief
holding that the procedural default doctrine preserves the integrity of the exhaustion doctrine, which \a prisoner could evade... by `letting the time run' on state remedies\
holding that exhaustion requirement mandates presentation of all claims to state court through discretionary review process
concluding that the procedural default doctrine was necessary to protect the integrity of the federal exhaustion rule
holding that in order to fully exhaust a claim a prisoner must seek even rarely-granted discretionary review by state’s highest court
holding that prisoner may not raise claims in habeas petition that were not presented to highest court for discretionary review

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Judges: O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer

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