Hays v. State of Alabama

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• holding presumed prejudice when counsel absent, prevented from assisting during a critical phase, or failed to subject prosecution’s case to meaningful adversarial testing
• finding no due process violation where “there ha[d] been no showing that [the witness’s] later, rather than earlier, testimony was false”
• finding no due process violation where “there ha[d] been no showing that [the witness’s] later, rather than earlier, testimony was false”
• prejudice presumed when counsel absent, prevented from assisting during critical state, or if counsel failed to subject prosecution's case to meaningful adversarial testing

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