William Lee Thompson v. Louie L. Wainwright

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a district court, in its discretion, may accept or reject a state’s exhaustion waiver
• discussing, in context of states’ waiver of the exhaustion requirement in federal habeas proceedings, distinctions between the interests of the states as sovereigns and those of the states’ courts
• discussing, in context of states' waiver of the exhaustion requirement in federal habeas proceedings, distinctions between the interests of the states as sovereigns and those of the states' courts
• remanding because the district court did not specify the basis for rejecting the waiver
• Absent “extraordinary circumstances, a federal court must abstain from deciding issues implicated in an ongoing criminal proceeding in state court.”
• “Each delay, for its span, is a commutation of a death sentence to one of imprisonment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).