Sawyer v. Smith, No. 89-5809 (U.S. Supreme Court) (497 U.S. 227; 110 S.Ct. 2822) (June 21, 1990) (Justice Kennedy)
This was one of the first cases to discuss the principles established in Teague v. Lane, 489 U.S. 288 (1989) where the court held that new rules of constitutional law are not to be applied retroactively on collateral review unless the rule falls within one of two narrow exceptions: (1) ...
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