Bobby Joe Hickman v. Denise Spears

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Failure to follow [state] procedural requirements prevents any further post-conviction relief unless petitioner shows a sufficient reason for the default.” (citation omitted)
• “Attorney error amounting to constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel constitutes ‘cause’ for a procedural default.”
• “A state procedural ground is independent if it relies on state law, rather than federal law, as the basis for the decision.... For the state ground to be adequate, it must be strictly or regularly followed and applied evenhandedly to all similar claims.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).