Richard Ellman Strahan v. Frank Blackburn, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General, State of Louisiana

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• noting that several cases warranted bar by laches due to witness unavailability, death, or lack of recall of pertinent facts and noted the length of delay in each case
• observing that the effect of such a provision-in creating a statute of limitations for habeas petitions-is arguably prohibited by the Constitution’s mandate against suspension of the habeas writ (citing U.S. Const, art. I, § 9, cl. 2)
• surveying all appellate level cases applying former Rule 9(a

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