The People v. Sergio Cerda

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• holding that a state prisoner must exhaust discre- tionary state post-conviction remedies be- fore seeking federal habeas relief
• holding that the procedural default doctrine preserves the integrity of the exhaustion doctrine, which \a prisoner could evade... by `letting the time run' on state remedies\
• holding that exhaustion requirement mandates presentation of all claims to state court through discretionary review process
• concluding that the procedural default doctrine was necessary to protect the integrity of the federal exhaustion rule
• holding that in order to fully exhaust a claim a prisoner must seek even rarely-granted discretionary review by state’s highest court
• holding that prisoner may not raise claims in habeas petition that were not presented to highest court for discretionary review

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