Martinez v. Ryan, No. 10-1001 (U.S. Supreme Court) (566 U.S. 1; 132 S.Ct. 1309) (March 20, 2012) (Justice Kennedy)
Here a sharply divided held that a federal habeas court may excuse a procedural default of an ineffective-assistance claim when the claim was not properly presented in state court due to an attorney’s errors in an initial-review collateral proceeding.
This is another highly fact-specific Supreme Court habeas corpus decision that ...
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