28 U.S.C. § 2264
Scope of Federal review; district court adjudications
United States · Title 28 — JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE · Status: effective
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Whenever a State prisoner under capital sentence files a petition for habeas corpus relief to which this chapter applies, the district court shall only consider a claim or claims that have been raised and decided on the merits in the State courts, unless the failure to raise the claim properly is—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996