Philip Shaddy v. Harold Clarke, Warden of the Nebraska State Penitentiary

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• if a state court ignores a potential procedural bar and reaches the merits of a prisoner's claim, the federal habeas courts may consider the claim
• “[O]nly if the state court issues a ‘plain statement’ that it is rejecting petitioner’s federal claim on state procedural grounds will federal habeas courts be precluded from reaching the merits of the claim.”

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