Daniel L. Sanders v. Leslie Ryder

WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge.

Daniel Sanders was convicted of child molestation in Washington state court. After appealing unsuccessfully in state court, Sanders filed a federal habeas petition. The magistrate judge ruled that some of Sanders’s claims had not been exhausted in state court, and that the Washington courts’ rulings on the other claims were not contrary to and did not involve an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law as determined by the Supreme Court. The district court adopted the magistrate judge’s ruling. Because we hold that Sanders ex hausted his…