FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Donald Washington appeals from the district court's dismissal of his federal habeas petition on grounds of procedural default. We granted a certificate of appealability on the question whether, in 1994, the California Supreme Court regularly and consistently applied the procedural bar rules established in In re Swain,
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