Court Rules, Felony and Stare Decisis

A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim

SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

The Supreme Court instructed the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to consider whether counsel’s inadequate performance had prejudiced Andrus – that is, whether but for counsel’s deficient performance, the mitigating evidence might have prompted at least one juror to opt for a sentence of life without parole rather than the death penalty.

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Stare Decisis Court Felony Statute

Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Instead, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld “general jurisdiction” over Cooper on the ground that Cooper, by registering as a foreign corporation in Georgia, had consented to suit in Georgia as a condition of doing business in the state. The petition in Cooper was filed by the defendant in a lawsuit resisting personal jurisdiction. .

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Statute Stare Decisis Court Manufacturing

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A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim

Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

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