(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided not to correct a factual ... and Ramirez’s claim of ineffective legal counsel has been backed by his own trial lawyer. The court's decision not to ...

The Supreme Court has interpreted AEDPA as requiring defendants ... in failing to bring forth a meritorious claim in state ...

In a shocking recent decision, the nation’s highest court ruled that “innocence isn’t enough” to spare a person the death penalty.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the case of a death row inmate who successfully argued two years ago that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. The high court refused to ...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has reinstated convictions ... In order to prove ineffective assistance of counsel and receive a new trial, a defendant must show that trial counsel’s representation ...

Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Two years ago, the Supreme Court determined that Terence Andrus, a death row inmate in Texas, received unconstitutionally ineffective legal counsel at his ...

The US Supreme Court Tuesday ruled in a 5-4 decision that federal courts may not order states to transport inmates to find ...

First, in his post-conviction motion, Gregory FitzGerald raised two claims of ineffective assistance: that trial counsel failed to accurately inform him of a plea deal offered by the state, and second ...

The only woman serving on Mississippi’s death row can challenge her sentence and conviction in state court, a federal judge ...

In writing for Supreme Court’s majority ... procedurally defaulted but allowed a few, including some ineffective assistance of counsel claims, to proceed.” Then Twyford asked the court ...

The N.C. Supreme Court ruled homeowner associations can’t discretionarily reject residents’ panels or pass restrictions that make them ineffective.