Ray Jackie Miller v. Donald Bordenkircher, Warden, West Virginia State Penitentiary and Attorney General of West Virginia

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• Congress did not intend to exclude non-lawyers and the poorly educated from operation of Section 2254's similar Rule 9(b)
• “Such factors as ignorance and unfamiliarity with the law ... do not inevitably insulate a prisoner from a finding of writ abuse.”
• “At some point, the system must declare that justice has been done insofar as human capacity exists to dispense it, and attempt to focus the attention of those it has incarcerated upon rehabilitation rather than relitigation.”
• “At some point, the system must declare that justice has been done insofar as human capacity exists to dispense it, and attempt to focus the attention of those it has incarcerated upon rehabilitation rather than relitigation.”

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