Taggert v. Swenson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““Petitioner now seeks to assert only the grounds in this Court which he raised in the courts of Missouri. Accordingly, he now seeks to omit the allegation of his prior petition in Civil Action No. 18191-3 that ‘[petitioner was denied and deprived of the right to be advised of the nature and cause of the accusation against him, contrary to the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, because the criminal charge and complaint on which he was tried is ambigous (sic), vague and indefinate (sic), failing to properly apprise the defendant of a crime under Missouri law.’ This, however, as pointed out in the order dismissing petitioner’s prior petition, is a ground cognizable in posteonviction proceedings collaterally attacking a conviction. If the contention is supported by a preponderance of the evidence in a Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R. hearing in the state trial court, the contention may result in the annulling and vacating of the judgment of conviction in the state court. Therefore, failure to consider this contention with petitioner’s other grounds for invalidating his state conviction would frustrate the purpose of avoiding piecemeal adjudication of claims, which provided the basis of the dismissal of petitioner’s prior petition in Civil Action No. 18191-3. Further, it is to petitioner’s advantage to exhaust his available state remedies in respect of all of his grounds for invalidating his conviction, including that of the vagueness and ambiguity of th”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 335 F. Supp. 992 - Deckard v. Swenson