James Leggins v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

How courts have described this case

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• “A claim of ineffective assistance of counsel must be presented to the state court as an independent claim before it may be used to establish cause for procedural default or denominated as a ground for habeas relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).