The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided not to correct a factual error it made in a previous opinion, making it much more ...

The Florida Supreme Court declined to hear the case in February 2021. Sotomayor concluded the Florida courts “failed to protect that core constitutional guarantee” of effective assistance of counsel. ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court has interpreted AEDPA as requiring defendants ... in failing to bring forth a meritorious claim in state court, such as ineffective assistance of trial counsel. “Prejudice” required ...

The Supreme Court published opinions ... Noteworthy about this case is the Court's expansion of the right to competent counsel to the plea bargaining process. Previously, there was no specifically ...

Richard Arrington of Milwaukee was convicted in 2018 of shooting and killing Ricardo Gomez on April 2, 2016, outside a house in Green Bay.

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

Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The ...

whether the state courts violated the Supreme Court’s well-established ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedents. Jun 27 2022 Petition DENIED. ABOUT RESOURCES JOB POSTINGS PRIVACY POLICY CONTACT US ...

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 ...