Phillip Jackson Lyons v. Jackie Crawford

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• holding that a petitioner must characterize the claims raised in state proceedings “specifically as federal claims”
• holding that petitioner’s statement of ineffective assistance of counsel “lacked the specificity and explicitness required for the purported federal constitutional dimension of such claims to have been ‘fairly presented’ to the Nevada courts under our precedent”
• holding a petitioner satisfies state exhaustion requirements for habeas corpus relief 2 when a petitioner cites the U.S. Constitution, federal case law, or federal statutes
• holding a petitioner satisfies state exhaustion requirements for 12 habeas corpus relief when a petitioner cites the U.S. Constitution, federal case law, or 13 federal statutes
• noting “a federal claim has not been exhausted in state court unless the petitioner both 28 raised the claim in state court and explicitly indicated then that the claim was a federal one”
• “the petitioner must have either referenced specific provisions of the federal constitution or statutes or cited to federal case law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).