Does the procedural default doctrine foreclose federal review of a state prisoner's federal habeas claims?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Zimmerman v. Swarthout, No. 2:13-cv-1801-MCE-CKD P (E.D. Cal. 2015):
The procedural default doctrine forecloses federal review of a state prisoner's federal habeas claims if those claims were defaulted in state court pursuant to an independent and adequate state procedural rule. See Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722, 729-30 (1991). Generally, "federal habeas relief will be unavailable when (1) 'a state court [has] declined to address a prisoner's federal claims because the prisoner had failed to meet a state procedural
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