The Supreme Court has interpreted AEDPA as requiring defendants ... in failing to bring forth a meritorious claim in state ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the case of a death row inmate who successfully argued two years ago that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. The high court refused to ...

In a shocking recent decision, the nation’s highest court ruled that “innocence isn’t enough” to spare a person the death penalty.

The Tennessee Supreme Court has reinstated convictions ... In order to prove ineffective assistance of counsel and receive a new trial, a defendant must show that trial counsel’s representation ...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision late last month, however, is expected to make pursuing a federal appeal based on assertions of ineffective counsel much more difficult. Essentially, the Supreme Court ...

Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Two years ago, the Supreme Court determined that Terence Andrus, a death row inmate in Texas, received unconstitutionally ineffective legal counsel at his ...

The US Supreme Court Tuesday ruled in a 5-4 decision that federal courts may not order states to transport inmates to find ...

The Supreme Court had previously ... and sent the case back down to the court to further review claims of ineffective counsel. The Texas court -- without hearing oral argument -- once again ...

In 2020, the Supreme Court held that this failure, among others, violated the Sixth Amendment guarantee of effective counsel.

In writing for Supreme Court’s majority ... procedurally defaulted but allowed a few, including some ineffective assistance of counsel claims, to proceed.” Then Twyford asked the court ...

Homeowners looking to install rooftop solar panels notched a win June 17 when the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled homeowner associations can’t discretionarily reject residents’ panels or pass ...