In 1982, Gary Bradford Cone, a Vietnam veteran, was found guilty and sentenced to death in a Tennessee criminal court for the murder of two elderly people during the commission of a robbery. See Cone v. Bell, 492 F.3d 743, 748 (6th Cir. 2007). Under...
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In February 2009, Erick Daniel Davila killed Annette Stevenson and her five-year-old granddaughter, Queshawn Stevenson, while the Stevensons were attending a family member’s birthday party in Fort Worth, Texas. See Davila v. Davis, 650 F. App’x 860,...
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Maples was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to death for killing two of his friends, each of whom he shot in the head with a .22 caliber rifle after a night of drinking. See Maples v. State, 758 So.2d 1, 14–15 (Ala. Crim. App. 1999). Once...
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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...