Banks v. Workman

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that Oklahoma’s procedural bar is independent of federal law, notwithstanding the OCCA’s power to excuse default in “extreme cases”
• holding that Martinez “applies only to a prisoner’s procedural default of a claim of ineffective assistance at trial,” and “not to claims of deficient performance by appellate counsel.”
• explaining that constitutional claims rejected by state court on independent and adequate state procedural grounds are normally barred from habeas review in federal court
• explaining that procedural default occurs when \state court dismisses federal [habeas] claim on the basis of noncompliance with adequate and independent state procedural rules\
• stating that constitutional claims rejected by the state court on independent and adequate state procedural grounds ordinarily are barred from federal habeas corpus review
• determining that inadmissible evidence is not material under Brady unless it is reasonably likely to lead to admissible evidence that undermines confidence in the verdict

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