The following excerpt is from Gill v. Hill, No. 2:17-cv-2095 MCE DB P (E.D. Cal. 2018):
A petitioner must await the outcome of the state appellate proceeding "even where the issue to be challenged in the writ of habeas corpus has been finally settled in the state courts." Sherwood v. Tomkins, 716 F.2d 632, 634 (9th Cir. 1983). This is because "the pending appeal may result in reversal of the petitioner's conviction on some other ground, thus mooting the
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