Legal Opinion
Vincent L. Fields v. Doug Waddington
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 21, 2005No. 04-35169PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRABER, Circuit Judge.
The district court dismissed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus for failure to exhaust state court remedies in Washington. The main question before us is whether, in Washington, briefing a state constitutional claim alerts the state court that it is called on to decide an independent and parallel federal constitutional claim, even in the absence of a Washington ease holding expressly that the two claims are substantively identical. We answer that question “no” and, therefore, affirm.
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