Robert Breest v. Everett I. Perrin, Jr., Warden, New Hampshire State Prison, Frederick J. Martineau v. Richard T. McCarthy Etc.

How courts have described this case

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• discussing when a state law ground is independent and adequate under Wainwright
• state court’s occasional grant of relief from strict enforcement of procedural requirements does not invalidate an otherwise adequate state ground for the purpose of habeas relief
• “A court may dismiss as frivolous complaints . . . postulating events and circumstances of a wholly fanciful kind.”

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