MEMORANDUM
ANITA B. BRODY, District Judge.
Michael Stokes ("Stokes") petitions the court for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2003). Once again, the court is presented with a case in which a derelict attorney has compromised a client's ability to seek habeas corpus review by a federal court. As a result of the Third Circuit's recent holding in Merritt v. Blaine,
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