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Eleventh Circuit· 11/17/1993

Terry Brian Tower v. O.J. Phillips

Citations

  • 7 F.3d 206
  • 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 29702
  • 1993 WL 441294

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • 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.”

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Judges: Anderson, Morgan, Johnson

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