Amid all the other turmoil of the last couple weeks, the Supreme Court delivered a blow to Americans’ rights. On May 23, the six-member conservative majority ruled in Shinn v. Ramirez and Jones that, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided not to correct a factual error it made in a previous opinion, making it much more ...

The Florida Supreme Court declined to hear the case in February 2021. Sotomayor concluded the Florida courts “failed to protect that core constitutional guarantee” of effective assistance of counsel. ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court has interpreted AEDPA as requiring defendants ... in failing to bring forth a meritorious claim in state court, such as ineffective assistance of trial counsel. “Prejudice” required ...

Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The ...

MADISON (WLUK) -- The state Supreme Court has upheld the conviction ... On the issue of ineffective counsel, the justices ruled that while the inmate's recording offered supporting evidence ...

Richard Arrington of Milwaukee was convicted in 2018 of shooting and killing Ricardo Gomez on April 2, 2016, outside a house in Green Bay.

After an investigation yielded new evidence concerning the case for death row inmate Richard Glossip, his attorney, Don ...

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 ...