Legal Opinion
O'Sullivan v. Boerckel
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 7, 1999No. 97-2048PublishedCited by 6,936 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
Federal habeas relief is available to state prisoners only after they have exhausted their claims in state court. 28 U.S. C. §§ 2254(b)(1), (c) (1994 ed. and Supp. III). In this case, we are asked to decide whether a state prisoner must present his claims to a state supreme court in a petition for *840discretionary review in order to satisfy the exhaustion requirement We conclude that he must.
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In 1977, respondent Darren Boerckel was tried in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Illinois, for the rape, burglary, and aggravated battery of an 87-year-old woman. The central evidence against him at…
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