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"This decision is perverse," Sotomayor wrote in her dissent. "It is illogical: It makes no sense to excuse a habeas petitioner’s counsel’s failure to raise a claim altogether because of ...
Left-leaning Justice Sonia Sotomayor penned a biting dissent ... “This decision is perverse. It is illogical,” she wrote. “The Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal defendants the right ...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor—joined by the other two liberals on the court—also blasted the majority opinion in Shinn v. Martinez Ramirez, writing in her scathing dissent that the decision is both ...
In a blistering dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, called the majority opinion "perverse" and "illogical." The case involves two men on death row in Arizona convicted of separate murders.
"This decision is perverse," wrote Sotomayor in dissent. "It is illogical." She is right on both counts. As The Washington Post's Radley Balko has detailed, "every court to consider the actual ...
Sotomayor described Thomas’s opinion as “perverse” and “illogical,” in part because it eviscerates the court’s own 2012 ruling in Martinez v. Ryan, another case out of Arizona.
Led by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the dissenting liberal justices called the ruling “perverse,” “illogical” and indifferent to Sixth Amendment violations. “This Court has recognized that right as ‘a ...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor referred last Wednesday to ... claims of ineffective trial counsel in capital case as "perverse" and "illogical." Conservative justices, for their part, have aired their ...
Supreme Court restricts prisoners’ ability to show attorneys were incompetent in death penalty cases
“This decision is perverse. It is illogical: It makes no sense to excuse ... the trial-ineffectiveness claim,” she wrote. Justice Sotomayor added that the record of Martinez and Jones ...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Justice Sonia Sotomayor ... writing in her scathing dissent that the decision is both “perverse” and “illogical.” The case involved two men, David ...