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 Supreme Court let stand Monday the death sentences of a Texas inmate who argued he received ineffective assistance of ...

In Andrus v. Texas, the Supreme Court’s new majority shows that it doesn’t care what the old majority had to say.

and the Supreme Court agreed. In his majority decision, Thomas argued that because Ramirez and Jones did not bring up the issue of ineffective counsel during their initial appeal of their state co ...

Now, as his new, effective counsel has turned up evidence of his potential innocence (evidence that the earlier, ineffective lawyers failed to find), the Supreme Court has barred him from ...

The US Supreme Court Tuesday ruled in a 5-4 decision that federal courts may not order states to transport inmates to find new evidence without first deciding of any resulting evidence would be ...

Raymond Twyford was convicted of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and kidnapping for the 1992 shooting death of Richard ...

In 2020, the Supreme Court held that this failure, among others, violated the Sixth Amendment guarantee of effective counsel.

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

The Supreme Court on Monday let stand the death sentence of a Texas inmate, rejecting his arguments that Texas state courts ...

The Supreme Court on Monday let stand the death sentence ... New lawyers for Andrus said that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate or present mitigating evidence, including ...