James C. Ho, Circuit Judge:
When defending against a federal habeas petition, the state may determine that it has a debatable timeliness argument, but a devastating merits argument. When that happens, the state may rationally elect to pursue the merits argument, and forgo the timeliness argument. It may choose that path to give closure to the litigant...
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