Divided court restricts prisoners’ ability to pursue claims that their lawyers were incompetent
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 23, 2022
The case pitted the language of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which generally prohibits federal courts from holding an evidentiary hearing on these kinds of claims if the prisoner “has failed to develop the factual basis of a claim in State court proceedings,” against a 2012 Supreme Court decision, Martinez v.
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