Licho Escamilla v. William Stephens, Director

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “Martinez does not apply to claims that were fully adjudicated on the merits by the state habeas court 8 because those claims are, by definition, not procedurally defaulted”
• concluding that counsel may have performed deficiently in part because they “failed to obtain a psychological evaluation for their client until after trial began”
• concluding that “Martinez does not apply to claims that were fully adjudicated on the merits by the state habeas court because those claims are, by definition, not procedurally defaulted”
• finding Martinez inapplicable where new 21 evidence did not fundamentally alter but “merely provided additional evidentiary support” 22 for already-adjudicated state court claim
• granting COA on plaintiff’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim where counsel, inter alia, “failed to obtain a psychological evaluation for their client until after trial began”
• declining to find exception to Pinholster where petitioner “merely provided additional evidentiary support for his claim that was already presented and adjudicated in the state court proceedings”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).