PEOPLES

v.

ALABAMA

Citator

Cited By

• Barksdale v. Lane, 957 F.2d 379 (7th Cir. 1992)
  …ding of waiver or procedural default under state law. Federal courts do not sit to correct errors made by state courts in the interpretation and application of state law.” See also Coleman v. O’Leary, 845 F. 2d 696, 699-700 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 488 U.S. 972, 109 S.Ct. 507, 102 L.Ed.2d 542 (1988). However, there is a third possibility. Mr. Barksdale may be alleging that the state court’s refusal to hear him on the issue of culpable negligence was so arbitrary that it cannot be the basis of procedural d…
• Bobo v. Kolb, 969 F.2d 391 (7th Cir. 1992)
  …654, 659 (7th Cir.1987). “ ‘Federal courts do not sit to correct error made by state courts in the interpretation and application of state law.’ ” Coleman v. O’Leary, 845 F. 2d 696, 700 (7th Cir.) (quoting Williams, 826 F. 2d at 659), cert. denied, 488 U.S. 972, 109 S.Ct. 507, 102 L.Ed.2d 542 (1988). However, a defendant’s failure to comply with a state procedural rule provides an adequate basis for barring habeas relief only if “the state court acts in a consistent and principled way. A basis of decision…