Terry Brian Tower v. O.J. Phillips

How courts have described this case

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• providing that when a state court does not issue a decision, a court on federal habeas review “may not assume that had the state court issued an opinion, it would have ignored its own procedural rules and reached the merits of this case.”
• “It is also established that ignorance of available post-conviction remedies cannot excuse a procedural default.”
• “[W]e may not assume that had the state court issued an opinion, it would have ignored its own procedural rules and reached the merits of the case.”
• “[W]e may not assume that had the state court issued an opinion, it would have ignored its own procedural rules and reached the merits of the case.”
• “[W]e may not assume that had the state court issued an opinion, it would have ignored its own procedural rules and reached the merits of the case.”
• “[W]e may not assume that had the state court issued an opinion, it would have ignored its own procedural rules and reached the merits of the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).