Allah v. LeFevre

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he Court of Appeals had something other than ineffective assistance of counsel in mind when it speculated that an unconscionable breakdown in state process might permit federal habeas review.”
• where the court rejected a habeas claim that ineffective assistance of counsel can constitute an “unconscionable breakdown,” and found that “it is plain from the majority opinion in Gates v. Henderson, 568 F.2d 830 (2d Cir. 1977

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).