Terrence Henderson v. Carmen Palmer

How courts have described this case

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• finding “cause to excuse the procedural default” on the basis that “the papers were in the control of prison officials and Henderson could not influence their delivery.”
• “when a prisoner submits a [state pleading] to the prison mailroom five days prior to a filing deadline and it is not delivered there is ‘cause to excuse [the] procedural default.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).