Mahdi v. Bagley

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[n]o prejudice flows from the failure to raise a meritless claim”
• “The Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant an impartial jury in state court.”
• “[F]ederal courts are not required to address a procedural-default issue before deciding against the petitioner on the merits.”
• “federal courts are not required to address a procedural-default issue before deciding against the petitioner on the merits”
• “[F]ederal courts are not required to address a procedural-default issue before deciding against the petitioner on the merits”
• “‘[F]ederal courts are not required to address a procedural- default issue before deciding against the petitioner on the merits,’ especially where the procedural 22 default issue is ‘complicated’ and ‘is unnecessary to [the] disposition of the case.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).