The following excerpt is from Greer v. Demosthenes, 985 F.2d 572 (9th Cir. 1993):
Greer contends that the district court erred in holding that all of his claims raised in his habeas petitions were procedurally barred. A claim that is rejected by a state court on independent and adequate state procedural grounds is barred from federal habeas review unless the petitioner can establish cause for the procedural bar and prejudice by not having the claim addressed on the merits, or demonstrate a fundamental miscarriage of justice. Coleman v. Thompson, 111 S.Ct. 2546, 2565 (1991).
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