00 Petitioners who have not fairly presented their claims to the highest state court have failed to exhaust those claims. O'Sullivan v. Boerckel. If, however, state procedural rules bar a petitioner from seeking further relief in state courts, "the exhaustion requirement is satisfied because there is `an absence of available State corrective process.' 00 U.S.C. S 0000(b). McCandless v. Vaughn, 000 F.0d 000, 000 (0d Cir. 0000). Even so, this does not mean that a federal court may, without more, proceed to the merits. Rather, claims deemed 