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 ...

Now, as his new, effective counsel has turned up evidence of his potential innocence (evidence that the earlier, ineffective lawyers failed to find), the Supreme Court has barred him from ...

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 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 ...

Raymond Twyford was convicted of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and kidnapping for the 1992 shooting death of Richard ...

PHOENIX — The Supreme Court issued two opinions Monday morning ... evidence that was not introduced at a state level for ineffective-counsel claims. That means that if a prisoner is trying ...

The Supreme Court on Monday let stand the death sentence ... New lawyers for Andrus said that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate or present mitigating evidence, including ...