OPINION
JANE B. STRANCH, Circuit Judge.
This is an unusually postured pre-AEDPA habeas case that turns on the Supreme Court's modern procedural default jurisprudence. In 1986, Joe Clark Mitchell—a black man—was convicted by an all-white jury of raping two white women in Tennessee. The Warden no longer disputes the assertion...
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