SHAUN CLIFFORD JOHNSON v. STATE OF FLORIDA

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• holding that interests of comity served by recognizing that state courts will perceive and acknowledge federal claims as readily as federal courts
• holding that interests of comity served by recognizing that state courts will perceive and acknowledge federal claims as readily as federal courts
• noting that, although petitioner’s state brief asserted only a question of New York law, its specificity immediately called to mind the Sixth Amendment protection against ineffective assistance of counsel
• noting that “[t]he greatest difficulty arises when in the state court the petitioner has described his claim in very broad terms, such as denial of a ‘fair trial’”
• noting that state courts are alerted to the constitutional nature of a claim when the claim rests on a factual matrix that is “well within the mainstream of due process adjudication”
• noting that \fair trial\ claim would, taken alone, be overly vague

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