George Taylor, III v. Attorney General Pennsylvania

OPINION

George Taylor, a Pennsylvania prisoner, appeals from an order dismissing his habe-as corpus petition without prejudice for failure to exhaust state-court remedies. We will vacate and remand for further proceedings.

Because our decision today is narrow, we will not recite the factual history of this case, with which the parties are familiar. Taylor filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition in January 2010 (M.D.Pa.Civ. No. l:10-cv-00206), in which he appeared to challenge the processes used to issue a Pennsylvania state detainer, as well as the procedures surrounding a then-upcoming parole…