Jerry Lynn Young v. Robert Herring, Lee County Sheriff

*546KING, Circuit Judge:

We consider this case en banc in order to determine whether a vaguely worded state court decision rejecting a federal habeas petitioner’s constitutional claim must contain a Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255, 109 S.Ct. 1038, 103 L.Ed.2d 308 (1989), plain statement that it relied upon state law even though the state court decision clearly rested, as two panels of this court concluded, on a state procedural bar. The United States Supreme Court recently resolved this question in Coleman v. Thompson, — U.S. -, 111 S.Ct. 2546, 115 L.Ed.2d 640 (1991), in which the Supreme Court held…