The following excerpt is from Smith v. Kernan, 139 F.3d 908 (9th Cir. 1998):
1 Smith filed his 2254 petition before the effective date of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996; therefore, we evaluate his motion under the pre-amended version of the statute. Lindh v. Murphy, 117 S.Ct. 2059, 2061 (1997).
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