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NADWORNY v. FAIR

No. 88-1844.

872 F.2d 1093 (1989)

William NADWORNY, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Michael V. FAIR, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 20, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Burnim, Marblehead, for petitioner, appellant.

Judy G. Zeprun, Asst. Atty. Gen., Criminal Bureau, with whom James M. Shannon, Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for respondent, appellee.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, COFFIN and SELYA, Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

We revisit today an enduring riddle, now codified: the requirement that a state prisoner who petitions for federal habeas relief must have given the state courts first crack at the claims which he raises.1 The relative ease with which the requirement can be stated belies the morass of interpretive difficulties which often engulfs individual petitions.

Any reasoned explication of the modern-day state of the...

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