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 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 ...

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 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 ...

A U.S. Supreme Court decision late last month, however, is expected to make pursuing a federal appeal based on assertions of ineffective counsel much more difficult. Essentially, the Supreme Court ...

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 ...

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

Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court on Monday let stand the death sentence of a Texas inmate, rejecting his arguments that Texas state courts had failed to follow the justices' earlier ruling in his ...

In writing for Supreme Court’s majority, Chief Justice John Roberts ... s claims as procedurally defaulted but allowed a few, including some ineffective assistance of counsel claims, to proceed.” Then ...