Henry Lee McCoy v. Lansom Newsome, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a “federal habeas petitioner bears the burden of demonstrating” cause and prejudice for his procedural default
• “[T]he other substantial evidence of [petitioner’s] guilt negates any possibility of prejudice resulting from his attorney’s [allegedly deficient performance].”
• petitioner cannot excuse default based on her “failure to act or think like a lawyer”
• “[T]he other substantial evidence of [petitioner’s] guilt negates any possibility of prejudice resulting from his attorney’s [allegedly deficient performance].”
• in turn citing Murray v. Carrier, 477 U.S. 478, 494, 106 S. Ct. 2639, 2648 (1986)
• “[T]he other substantial evidence of [petitioner’s] guilt negates any possibility of prejudice resulting from his attorney’s failure to subpoena the alibi witnesses.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).