The following excerpt is from Santos v. Holland, Case No. 1:14-cv-01929-LJO-SKO-HC (E.D. Cal. 2015):
where the process of the state court is claimed to have been defective. Taylor v. Maddox, 366 F.3d 992, 999-1001 (9th Cir. 2004). To determine that a state court's fact finding process is defective in some material way or non-existent, a federal habeas court must be satisfied that any appellate court to whom the defect is pointed out would be unreasonable in holding that the state court's fact finding process was adequate. Taylor v. Maddox, 366 F.3d at 1000.
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