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Ninth Circuit: Habeas Petitioner Need Only Show That IAC Claims Are Substantial to Excuse Procedural Default Under Martinez
Loaded on May 15, 2019
by Chad Marks
published in Criminal Legal News
June, 2019, page 37
Filed under:
Habeas Corpus.
Location:
United States of America.
by Chad Marks
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order remanding a habeas case so that the district court could conduct an analysis of the substantiality of petitioner’s ineffective assistance of counsel (“IAC”) claims.
Kyle J. Rodney petitioned a district court in Nevada for habeas ...
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