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O'Sullivan Vs. Boerckel

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 30, 1999

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  9. U.S. 838 (1999) October Term, 1998 Syllabus O'Sullivan V. Boerckel
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  10. to resolve federal constitutional claims before those claims are presented to the federal courts. See, e. g., Castille v. Peoples
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  11. because the confession was coerced, and because he had not knowingly and intelligently waived his rights under Miranda v. Arizona
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  12. Court, with one justice dissenting, rejected Boerckel's claims and affirmed his convictions and sentences. People v. Boerckel
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  13. petition for leave to appeal, and this Court denied Boerckel's subsequent petition for a writ of certiorari. Boerckel v. Illinois
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  14. and (6) that his right to discovery of exculpatory material under Brady v. Maryland
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  15. exception to the procedural default rule. See Coleman v. Thompson
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  16. ruling, the District Court concluded that Boerckel had failed to satisfy the standards established in Schlup v. Delo
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  17. to resolve a conflict in the Courts of Appeals on this issue. 525 U. S. 999 (1998). Compare e. g., Richardson v. Procunier
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  18. F.2d 429 (CA5 1985) (must file petition for discretionary review), with Dolny v. Erickson
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  19. See Castille v. Peoples
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  20. Wain wright v. Sykes
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  21. state court review, we have never interpreted the exhaustion requirement in such a restrictive fashion. See Wilwording v. Swenson
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  22. Thus, we have not interpreted the exhaustion doctrine to require prisoners to file repetitive petitions. See Brown v. Allen
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  23. review process and where the state courts have not provided relief through those remedies in the past. See Wilwording v. Swenson
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  24. c) requires only that state prisoners give state courts a fair opportunity to act on their claims. See Castille v. Peoples
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  25. law, the state courts should have the first opportunity to review this claim and provide any necessary relief. Rose v. Lundy
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  26. had an opportunity to correct the constitutional violation in the first instance. Ibid. See also Duckworth v. Serrano
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  27. he presents his claims to a federal court. Unlike the extraordinary procedures that we found unnecessary in Brown v. Allen
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  28. and Wilwording v. Swenson
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  29. see also State v. Sandon
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  30. to the Illinois Supreme Court in a timely fashion has resulted in a procedural default of those claims. See Coleman v. Thompson
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  31. Ante, at 844 (citing Wilwording v. Swenson
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  32. and (2) the waiver, or so-called procedural default, rule, applied in cases like Francis v. Henderson
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  33. to await a decision by the highest court of the State. We clarified this abstention principle in Urquhart v. Brown
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  34. see United States ex rel. Kennedy v. Tyler
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  35. of state procedures at the time when the federal court is asked to entertain a habeas petition. Our decision in Moore v. Dempsey
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  36. mean that the claim had not been exhausted. When we implicitly overruled Moore several years later in Coleman v. Thompson
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  37. Mur ray v. Carrier
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  38. id., at 495. In the first of our modern procedural default cases, Francis v. Henderson
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  39. Id., at 541. Similarly, in Wainwright v. Sykes
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  40. Id., at 88,90. In Engle v. Isaac
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  41. state remedy in order to avoid procedural default. As far back as Brown v. Allen
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  42. relief under the State Administrative Procedure Act, even if those procedures were technically available. Wilwording v. Swenson
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  43. claims to the Illinois Supreme Court in a timely fashion has resulted in a procedural default of those claims. Coleman v. Thompson
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  44. U. S. 527 , 536 (1986) (quoting Jones v. Barnes
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  45. the claim in a petition for review to 859 the Illinois Supreme Court. Id., at 1199 (citing Gomez v. Acevedo
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  46. F.3d 192 , 195-196 (CA7 1997) (which cites in turn People v. Coleman
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  47. at 736-738. We ordinarily defer to a federal court of appeals' interpretation of state-law questions. See Bishop v. Wood
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  48. See, e. g., Coleman v. Thomp
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  49. overburdened state courts and delay further a criminal process that is often criticized for too much delay. Cf. Hohn v. United
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  50. Syllabus O'Sullivan V. Boerckel
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