The following excerpt is from Luna v. Kernan, 784 F.3d 640 (9th Cir. 2015):
1 The footnote reads: Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S.(2010), involved tolling of a federal time bar, while Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722, 111 S.Ct. 2546, 115 L.Ed.2d 640 (1991), concerned cause for excusing a procedural default in state court. We see no reason, however, why the distinction between attorney negligence and attorney abandonment should not hold in both contexts. Maples, 132 S.Ct. at 923 n. 7 (citation omitted).
1 The footnote reads: Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S.(2010), involved tolling of a federal time bar, while Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722, 111 S.Ct. 2546, 115 L.Ed.2d 640 (1991), concerned cause for excusing a procedural default in state court. We see no reason, however, why the distinction between attorney negligence and attorney abandonment should not hold in both contexts. Maples, 132 S.Ct. at 923 n. 7 (citation omitted).
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