BECKER, Circuit Judge.
Curtis Long appeals from an order of the District Court which denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus after concluding that, even though the Commonwealth failed to raise the statute of limitations defense, 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1), in the answer to the petition, it had not waived the defense because it advanced it after the Magistrate Judge sua sponte flagged it in her report. This appeal requires us to decide whether this...
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