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Supreme Court· 1/18/2012

Maples v. Thomas

Citations

  • 132 S. Ct. 912
  • 181 L. Ed. 2d 807
  • 565 U.S. 266
  • 2012 U.S. LEXIS 905

Oral argument

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How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the particular attorney misconduct in that case rose to the level of abandonment of a client and constituted an extraordinary circumstance
  • holding that attorneys who left their law firm without notifying the petitioner they could not continue to represent him, withdrawing, or making arrangements for his continued representation abandoned the petitioner
  • concluding, in capital case, that applicant who was abandoned by his attorney in state PCR proceedings established the requisite cause to excuse procedural default in federal habeas action
  • inquiring “whether [the petitioner] ha[d] shown that his attorneys of record abandoned him, thereby supplying the extraordinary circumstances beyond his control, necessary to lift the state procedural bar to his federal petition” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
  • inquiring “whether [the petitioner] ha[d] shown that his attorneys of record abandoned him, thereby supplying the extraordinary circumstances beyond his control, necessary to lift the state procedural bar to his federal petition” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
  • inquiring “whether [the petitioner] ha[d] shown that his attorneys of record abandoned him, thereby supplying the extraordinary circumstances beyond his control, necessary to lift the state procedural bar to his federal petition” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)

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Judges: Ginsburg, Alito, Scalia, Thomas

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181 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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