JACOBS, Circuit Judge, concurring. I write separately in support of the Court’s mandate, because I would reach the same result (vacatur of the judgment) by a somewhat different route. In dismissing the petition, the district court believed that it was constrained by our Smaldone decision, which ruled: “This Circuit, like her sisters, has found attorney error inadequate to create the ext…
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