Court Opinion

ID: 9420850
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 22:56:08.443126+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:27.207956
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Jackson
concurs except that he thinks it is not material whether California will grant habeas corpus in this case. True, the petitioner’s original appeal to the California court sought to raise a federal question. That was not passed upon because the appeal was dismissed for default. Whether the default should be considered excusable by any court is left highly in doubt by the record. At all events, in asking relief from it there was no claim that to take a default under such circumstances is forbidden to a state court by the Constitution of the United States, and such a claim would be frivolous if made. Hence, the petitioner is out of court for reasons of state law and practice, and the writ of certiorari should be dismissed.