The right to counsel is the right for a criminal defendant to have representation by an attorney in assistance of their defense, regardless of their ability to pay. The right to counsel stems from the Sixth Amendment of the United States...
ineffective assistance of counsel
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An Arizona state court convicted Respondent Jeffrey Landrigan of first-degree murder in 1990. See Petition for Certiorari at 1,2. After Landrigan's conviction, the trial court considered evidence of aggravating and mitigating circumstances. See id at 2...
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Does the exception to the procedural default doctrine rule laid out in Martinez v. Ryan apply to defendants who bring ineffective assistance of counsel claims for the...
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In 2006, sixteen-year-old Kentel Myrone Weaver was convicted of the first-degree murder of fifteen-year-old Germaine Rucker and sentenced to life imprisonment. See Commonwealth v. Weaver, SJC no. 10932, slip op. at 8-9; Brief for Respondent,...
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In 1993, while on parole for shooting another former girlfriend, petitioner Holly Wood snuck into the bedroom of his ex-girlfriend while she slept and fatally shot her in the head with a shotgun. See Wood v. Allen, 542 F.3d 1281, 1283–84 (11th Cir....
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