Anthony Lee Chaney v. Samuel Lewis, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections and Lloyd E. Bramlett, Superintendent, Arizona State Prison

How courts have described this case

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• “since Chaney’s claim raises no factual issues, his challenge to the constitutionality of the Arizona death penalty statute as applied is a purely legal question”
• challenge to constitutionality of death penalty statute, where claim raises no factual issues, involves pure question of law
• prisoners not entitled to appointed counsel “unless the circumstances of a particular 8 case indicate that appointed counsel is necessary to prevent due process violations.”
• prisoners not entitled to appointed counsel “unless the circumstances of a particular 8 case indicate that appointed counsel is necessary to prevent due process violations.”
• prisoners not entitled to appointed counsel “unless the circumstances of a 5 particular case indicate that appointed counsel is necessary to prevent due process violations.”
• prisoners not entitled to appointed counsel “unless the circumstances of a particular 8 case indicate that appointed counsel is necessary to prevent due process violations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).