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Confiscation of Legal Files Excused Failure to Exhaust

A federal district court in New York held that the confiscation of a prisoner's legal files established cause and prejudice sufficient to overcome procedural default for failing to exhaust administrative remedies.

In 1998, prisoner F. Lee Hinebaugh filed a federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 ...

 

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