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

SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

After lingering on the court’s docket for more than a year, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal , ruling in an unsigned opinion that death-row prisoner Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided constitutionally ineffective performance at sentencing by failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence. New Relist.

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‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

However, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers , less than 3 percent of criminal cases have gone to trial in the last five decades. From about the 1600s, they had a gigantic Criminal Code where everything was a felony and every felony was punishable by death. The courts are not for landless laborers.

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

‘Outrageous Outcomes’: Plea Bargaining and the Justice System

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