Rhines v. Weber, No. 03-9046 (U.S. Supreme Court) (544 U.S. 269; 125 S.Ct. 1528) (March 30, 2005) (Justice O'Connor)
This is one of those roll-your-eyes cases that shows the gradual but inexorable erosion of the once Great Writ of habeas corpus. In place of rules and procedures that were once relatively straight-forward and user-friendly, the courts and Congress have devised a legal landscape that is now pockmarked with land-mines, ...
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