United States v. Gerald D. Castor

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “federal courts . . . may require, as a matter of comity, that such [state pretrial] detainees exhaust all avenues of state relief before seeking the writ”
• stating that while § 2241 applicants are not subject to the statutory requirement of exhaustion of remedies, “federal courts nevertheless may require, as a matter of comity, that such detainees exhaust all avenues of state relief before seeking the writ”
• stating that while § 2241 applicants are not subject to the statutory requirement of exhaustion of remedies, “federal courts nevertheless may require, as a matter of comity, that such detainees exhaust all avenues of state relief before seeking the writ”
• reviewing de novo a district court’s determina- tion regarding exhaustion in the context of a habeas petition brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c)(3)
• “Whatever the contours of [the claim-of-right] defense may be, they do not reach extortions based on threats of physical violence outside the labor context.”
• “[F]ederal courts nevertheless may require, as a matter of comity, that [pretrial] detainees exhaust all avenues of state relief before seeking the writ.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).