exhaustion of state remedies

exhaustion of state remedies. The doctrine that an available state remedy must be exhausted in certain types of cases before a party can gain access to a federal court. • For example, a state prisoner must exhaust all state remedies before a federal court will hear a petition for habeas corpus. [Cases: Habeas Corpus 319–352.]

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