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CHARLES RUSSELL RHINES, PETITIONER
v.
DOUGLAS WEBER, WARDEN
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES
COURT OF
APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
[March 30, 2005]
Justice Stevens, with
whom Justice Ginsburg and
Justice Breyer join,
concurring.
While I join the Court's opinion, I do
so on the understanding that its reference to good
cause for failing to exhaust state remedies more
promptly, ante, at 7, is not intended to impose the sort
of strict and inflexible requirement that would