Saul K. Rosenfeld v. Kenneth W. Dunham, Superintendent

How courts have described this case

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• “[Wjhen a state appellate court affirms petitioner’s conviction without opinion and the People had urged affirmance on both procedural and substantive grounds the federal habeas court will assume that the state appellate court rested its decision on petitioner’s procedural failure to object.”
• “When a state appellate court refuses to consider the merits of a petitioner’s claims on account of his procedural failure to preserve his rights by objection at the time, then a federal court may not review those merits in a collateral habeas corpus proceeding.”

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