STEVEN F. TAYLOR, — v. LARRY NORRIS, DIRECTOR, ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, —

MELLOY, Circuit Judge.

Arkansas prisoner Steven F. Taylor appealed the district court’s 1 denial of his petition for habeas relief. We affirmed in a decision dated February 9, 2005. The appellee filed a timely petition for rehearing by the panel. Although the appellee, Larry Norris, was the prevailing party in our prior decision, he correctly points out in the rehearing petition that we misconstrued the procedural default rule as set out in Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255, 109 S.Ct. 1038, 103 L.Ed.2d 308 (1989). Accordingly, we grant the petition for rehearing by the panel, vacate the opinion…