Does 28 U.S.C § 2254 (b)(1) permit a petitioner to waive the state exhaustion requirement if circumstances exist that make the state corrective process ineffective to protect the petitioner's constitutional rights?

2. Is this court's rulings in the cases Redd v. Chappell, 57 U.S. 1041 and Duckworth v. Serrano, 454 U.S. 13, 102 S.Ct 18, 70 L.Ed 2d (981), legally controlling if the chief Justice of a state's supreme court is criminally complicit?

Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment