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 ...

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 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.

(CNN)Supreme Court justices are facing protests from outside their newly fortified perimeter -- and from within -- as they ...

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 ...

Terence Andrus was convicted of capital murder in the deaths of Avelino Diaz and Kim-Phuong Vu Bui during a 2008 attempted ...

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

The Supreme Court had previously ... and sent the case back down to the court to further review claims of ineffective counsel. The Texas court -- without hearing oral argument -- once again ...