Court Opinion

ID: 9451109
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:06:46.377931+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:34.530274
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KALODNER, Chief Judge
(concurring) :
I join in the denial of the petition for rehearing solely on the ground that the petitioner-appellant failed to exhaust his available remedies in the state court.
In United States ex rel. Campbell v. Rundle, Supt. and Shoemaker, 327 F.2d 153 (1964) this Court said:
“ * * * the court below was without jurisdiction to entertain the suit because of the provisions of Section 2254, Title 28, U.S.C., which provide that a federal court shall not grant the writ of habeas corpus unless it appears that the applicant has exhausted the remedies available in the courts of the State, and that an applicant shall not be deemed to have exhausted the remedies available in the courts of the State within the meaning of Section 2254 if he has the right under the law of the State to raise, by any available procedure, the question presented.” (p. 164)
*32In that case the District Court had denied the writ of habeas corpus on the merits and while we expressed the view that it had erred in doing so, we nevertheless affirmed the denial of the writ because of the failure to exhaust state remedies.
In the following cases we adhered to our holding in that case: United States ex rel. Altizer v. Hendrick, Supt., 347 F.2d 349 (1965); United States ex rel. Dalton v. Myers, Supt., 342 F.2d 202 (1965).
The cases cited are in accord with what was said in Fay v. Noia, 372 U.S. 391, 83 S.Ct. 822, 9 L.Ed.2d 837 (1963). There the Court declared that its prior decisions had “fashioned a doctrine of abstention, whereby full play would be allowed the States in the administration of their criminal justice without prejudice to federal rights enwoven in the state proceedings.” (p. 419, 83 S.Ct. p. 838)