Court Opinion

ID: 9467457
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 01:49:13.429713+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:40:21.266348
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LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I dissent from the majority opinion vacating the district court’s order dismissing the appellant’s petitions. I would affirm the order of the district court. The court below found there was an intentional, knowing and unequivocal relinquishment of a known right which constituted a waiver of federal habeas corpus review. Under the evidence, that there was a waiver and an abandonment is established beyond any doubt. Seeking another stay and consideration of substantively identical successive petitions constitutes an abuse of the writ as defined by Sanders v. United States, 373 U.S. 1, 83 S.Ct. 1068, 10 L.Ed.2d 148. I agree with the district court order that there must be an end to litigation and that such frustration of the legal processes should not be allowed to continue.