Terry L. Harris v. Eugene McAdory Warden

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• holding that a pro se habeas petitioner’s borderline mental disability and alleged organic brain dysfunction did not qualify as cause to excuse his procedural default
• holding that low IQ score and limited reading ability are not external factors
• finding that such a condition was not suffi- ciently external to the petitioner to support cause for default
• “Something that comes from a source within the petitioner is unlikely to qualify as an external impediment.”
• finding that a petitioner's pro se status does not constitute adequate ground for cause
• instructing that prisoner’s ignorance of the law is not cause to excuse default

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).