Legal Opinion

Chambers v. Thompson

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Decided August 17, 1998No. 96-8905PublishedCited by 62 opinions

Non-Argument Calendar.

1Opinion of the Court

CARNES, Circuit Judge:

James Harris Chambers, a Georgia prisoner, appeals the denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Chambers raised a variety of claims in his petition, some of which had never been raised in state court. The district court denied on the merits the claims that had been raised in state court, and it denied as procedurally barred those which had not been. (Any further description of the claims held to be procedurally barred would serve no purpose, given the general nature of the procedural bar issue and our resolution of it.) We agree with the…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  2. Rose v. LundySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  3. Teague v. LaneSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  4. Engle v. IsaacSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  5. Castille v. PeoplesSupreme Court of the United States · 1989

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3Cited by62 opinions

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  4. United States v. Kevin Earl SneedCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2010
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