U.S. v. Frady, No. 80-1595 (U.S. Supreme Court) (456 U.S. 152; 102 S.Ct. 1584) (April 5, 1982) (Justice O'Connor)
Case held that to obtain collateral relief based upon trial errors as to which no contemporaneous objection was made, a defendant must show both "cause" excusing his double procedural default and "actual prejudice" resulting from the errors.
In this case the Court rejected a habeas petitioner's collateral attack upon his ...
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