JON O. NEWMAN, Chief Judge: The large volume of prisoner litigation in federal courts makes it virtually inevitable that a case of arguable merit will occasionally be lumped with the many truly frivolous cases and be dismissed without adequate consideration. There is also a risk that a prisoner’s claim will be mischaracterized in a way that makes it seem to be one of the many friv…
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