King v. Cunningham

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding petitioner’s “Eighth Amendment ‘excessive sentence’ claim unexhausted because the constitutional nature of the claim was not ‘fairly presented’ to the state courts on direct appeal”
• “The standard for competency to plead guilty is no higher than the standard for competency to stand trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).