Danny G. Rachel v. Donald E. Bordenkircher

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the Sixth Amendment was violated because attorneys’ inexperience, inattention or lack of knowledge of the law led to their failure to object to misconduct
• cause exists when failure to make timely objections stems from inexperience, inattention or lack of knowledge of the law
• “It is apparent that the prosecution calculated these remarks to create in the jurors’ minds an inference of guilt based solely on petitioner’s election to remain silent.”
• prosecutor remarked, “We will never know, these men won’t tell us. The only other man who could tell us is dead and in his grave. . . .”
• cause exists when failure to make timely objections stems from inexperience, inattention, or lack of knowledge of the law as acknowledged by affidavits of counsel
• affidavits by defense counsel showed inexperience, inattention and lack of knowledge of applicable law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).