Roosevelt Pollard v. Paul Delo

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• finding that repeated references to the defendant as a \predator\ were not so prejudicial as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial
• finding that repeated references to the defendant as a \predator\ were not so prejudicial as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial
• State court’s consideration of merits of claim “as a matter of grace” does not erase fact that claim is defaulted because of petitioner’s failure to comply with State’s procedural rule
• State court’s consideration of merits of claim “as a matter of grace” does not erase fact that claim is defaulted because of petitioner’s failure to comply with State’s procedural rule
• “where the reasoning or theory of . . . prior circuit authority is 1 clearly irreconcilable with the reasoning or theory of intervening higher authority, [the Court] 2 should consider itself bound by the later controlling authority”

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