Fifth Circuit· 8/30/2001

Burdine v. Johnson

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262 F.3d 336

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holding that defendant had been prejudiced where record suggested that defense counsel had actually been asleep during portions of trial
concluding that an \[u]nconscious counsel equates to no counsel at all\ for purposes of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel in a criminal case
rejecting the contention that the Teague non-retroactivity doctrine barred application of a presumption of prejudice arising from trial counsel’s alleged sleeping during a critical juncture during trial
finding denial of assistance of counsel when counsel was sleeping during portions of the defendant’s trial
finding ineffective assistance where defense counsel repeatedly slept while evidence was being introduced against defendant in capital murder trial
noting that the \distinction between cases presenting new rules and cases presenting new facts is central to the functioning of Teague \ and that \ Teague does not bar a federal court from reviewing the application of an old rule to new facts in state court\

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Judges: King, Jolly, Higginbotham, Davis, Jones, Smith, Wiener, Barksdale, Demoss, Benavides, Stewart, Parker, Dennis

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