Legal Opinion
Eric Allen Peterson v. Robert Lampert
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 14, 2003No. 00-35897PublishedCited by 412 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Eric Allen Peterson appeals the district court’s dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition based on his failure properly to exhaust in the Oregon state courts his ineffective assistance of counsel claim under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. We hold that Peterson did not fairly present his federal claim to the Oregon Supreme Court because, on the face of his petition for review in that court, he expressly limited his claim to Oregon constitutional law. We therefore affirm.
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In 1992, Peterson pled guilty in…
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