Peter Lewis v. Jerry Sternes

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• holding that ineffective assistance of counsel can only excuse default if it itself had been fairly presented before the state courts
• stating that exhaustion requires petitioner to raise claim “at each and every level in the state court system, including levels at which review is discretionary rather than mandatory”
• finding the claims procedurally defaulted for petitioner’s failure to pursue either claim on direct appeal or in post-conviction proceedings
• \[A]n assertion that one's counsel was ineffective for failing to pursue particular constitutional issues is a claim separate and independent of those issues.\
• “As [petitioner] prepared the petition without the assistance of counsel, we owe it a generous interpretation.”
• the claim must be asserted “at each and every level in the state court system”

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