Supreme Court· 5/12/1997

Lambrix v. Singletary

Citations

520 U.S. 518
117 S. Ct. 1517
137 L. Ed. 2d 771
1997 U.S. LEXIS 2802
10 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 446

How courts have described this case

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refusing to apply new procedural rule retroactively even though it went to whether the sentence of death was properly pronounced
deciding the merits of a claim after “looking past any procedural default”
stating that bypassing procedural questions to reach the merits of a habeas petition may be justified “if the [underlying issues] are easily resolvable against the habeas petitioner, whereas the procedural bar issue involved complicated issues of state law”
\[Teague asks] whether no other interpretation [of existing precedent] was reasonable.\
“Judicial economy might counsel giving the Teague question priority, for example, if it were easily resolvable against the habeas petitioner, whereas the procedural-bar issue involved complicated issues of state law.”
federal habeas court may bypass question of procedural default to deny claim on merits

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Judges: Scalia, Stevens, O'Connor, Ginsburg, Breyer

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