HOLMAN v. GILLIS

Civil Action No. 98-4276.

58 F.Supp.2d 587 (1999)

Robert HOLMAN, Petitioner, v. Frank D. GILLIS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

July 21, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jules Epstein, Kairys & Rudovsky, Philadelphia, PA, for Robert Holman.

Peter J. Gardner, District Attorney's Office, Philadelphia, PA, Donna G. Zucker, Philadelphia, PA, for Frank D. Gillis, the District Attorney of the County of Philadelphia, the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania.


MEMORANDUM

EDUARDO C. ROBRENO, District Judge.

This case raises issues of comity and federalism at the intersection of a state's power to administer its criminal justice system and federal habeas corpus jurisdiction. To harmonize these interests, federal law requires that, in order to seek federal habeas corpus review of claims challenging a state criminal conviction, a petitioner must show that he has exhausted all available state remedies as to all such...

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