As for the standard of representation, the Supreme Court in Strickland v. Washington (1984) adopted a two-step test for ineffective assistance of counsel claims. To set aside a plea, verdict ...
Massachusetts' highest court reinstated the first-degree murder conviction of a woman who in 2009 killed her former neighbor ...
The man who killed 10-year-old Hailey Owens thinks his former attorneys could have done more to help him avoid the death ...
A defendant who maintains his lawyer bungled the job by failing to argue on appeal that the trial judge should have recused himself from the case lost a bid for a new sentencing hearing.
The Kansas Supreme Court says that in the case of Appeal ... He argued his trial counsel was ineffective because he had not been informed of the applicable lesser included offenses.
State law provides $50,000 for each year of wrongful imprisonment, but a ProPublica investigation showed how the law’s narrow ...
His son refuses to let up until his 79-year-old father walks out of Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron as a free man.
Reviewing yet another Ninth Circuit grant of habeas relief on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, the Supreme Court (in Knowles v. Mirzayance) again unanimously reverses the Ninth Circuit.
A Missouri man on death row failed to show that drug-induced psychosis left him innocent of first-degree murder charges — or ...
The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a dispute over a ... had applied a blanket rule that a prisoner will always lose a habeas claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel if they don’t call ...
TONIGHT, THE STATE’S HIGHEST COURT HAS REINSTATED THE MURDER CONVICTION OF ... Corey filed a motion for a new trial based on ...
The Supreme Court ruled that the jury may have ... false evidence, and ineffective assistance of counsel." Court documents say during a nine-day evidentiary hearing on Kaiser's petition, Lynch ...