TATE, Circuit Judge:
For purposes of this appeal, the salient facts are these:
Long, a Texas state prisoner, initially on July 14, 1981 filed a petition for federal habeas relief, 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For reasons immaterial to the present appellate issue (the reasons had to do with facilitating state exhaustion and expediting ultimate federal habeas disposition), Long signed a joint stipulation with the state dismissing his habeas petition without prejudice...
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