Ninth Circuit -- ANTWION THOMPSON V. D. RUNNEL

Habeas waiver/forfieture of claims --

The AEDPA/Habeas standard of clearly established federal law &c, &c is not a procedural defense but an adjudicative standard.  The court can therefore identify that law without reference to the parties' arguments below.

(So held on vacatur reconsideration, incidentally.)

Dissent:  State chose to identify another legal standard, and is bound to that choice.  Waived is waived.

ANTWION THOMPSON V. D. RUNNEL