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t. e. In United States law, ineffective assistance of counsel (IAC[1]) is a claim raised by a convicted criminal defendant asserting that the defendant's legal counsel performed so ineffectively that it deprived the defendant of the constitutional right guaranteed by the Assistance of Counsel Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States ...
Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), was a landmark Supreme Court case that established the standard for determining when a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel is violated by that counsel's inadequate performance. The decision was a compromise by the majority in which the varying "tests for ineffective performance of ...
Scalia, joined by Thomas; Roberts (all but Part IV) Dissent. Alito. Lafler v. Cooper, 566 U.S. 156 (2012), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court clarified the Sixth Amendment standard for reversing convictions due to ineffective assistance of counsel during plea bargaining. The Court ruled that when a lawyer's ineffective ...
Jae Lee v. United States, 582 U.S. ___ (2017), was a Supreme Court case in which the Court held that when a criminal defendant raises Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claims, they only need to prove by reasonable probability that they were wrongly prejudiced by their counsel to accept a plea deal rather than go to trial.
Ryan. Luis Mariano Martinez v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections. Martinez v. Schriro, 623 F.3d 731 (9th Cir. 2010) Martinez v. Ryan, 680 F.3d 1160 (9th Cir. 2012) Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), was a United States Supreme Court case about ineffective assistance of counsel claims which allowed a narrow exception ...
To review the Sixth Amendment claim itself, the new standard from Strickland v. Washington had two requirements: a lawyer's work would be deemed "ineffective" if 1) "counsel's representation fell below an objective standard of reasonableness," and 2) "but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different."
Overview of claims of "actual innocence". In its most literal sense, "actual innocence"—more properly understood as a claim that the prosecution has failed to prove factual guilt beyond a reasonable doubt—is a very commonly raised defense to a crime. [3][4] Claims of actual innocence may involve disputing that any crime occurred at all, or ...
Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court expanded the ability to reopen a case in light of new evidence of innocence. [1] Petitioner Lloyd E. Schlup, Jr., a Missouri prisoner under a sentence of death for the 1984 murder of an inmate named Arthur Dade, filed a habeas corpus petition alleging that ...