Robert Lee Williams v. Michael Lane, Director, Department of Corrections, and Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General of the State of Illinois

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• collecting cases in which state procedural rules were deemed inadequate because of their novelty or sporadic application
• rejecting state appellate court’s finding of procedural default, premised on counsel’s failure to make a contemporaneous objection, where record revealed that trial counsel had, in fact, made the necessary objection
• applying harmless beyond a reasonable doubt standard to Fifth Amendment violation
• state court determination of waiver does not preclude federal habeas review where record shows that petitioner fully complied with state's articulated procedural rules
• \Only [the defendant] could possibly have rebutted both [the victim's] version of what happened after he pulled his car over . . . and her testimony that she did not consent.\

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