The following excerpt is from Farrington v. Senkowski, 214 F.3d 237 (2nd Cir. 1999):
Finally, appellant claims that the prosecutor's summation to the jury deprived him of a fair trial. We agree with the district court that federal habeas review of these claims is barred because appellant "defaulted his federal claims in state court pursuant to an independent and adequate state procedural rule." Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722, 750 (1991). Before the district court, appellant argued
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