Supreme Court· 6/26/1986

Murray v. Carrier

Citations

477 U.S. 478
106 S. Ct. 2639
91 L. Ed. 2d 397
1986 U.S. LEXIS 66
54 U.S.L.W. 4820

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holding that cause must turn on “whether the prisoner can show that some objective factor external to the defense impeded counsel’s efforts to comply with the State’s procedural rule”
holding that good cause exists when “some objective factor external to the defense impeded counsel’s efforts to comply with [a] State’s procedural rule”
holding that a habeas petitioner may avoid procedural default by showing that counsel's performance was constitutionally ineffective
holding that if a petitioner can show that he received ineffective assistance of appellate counsel, this may excuse his procedural default of claims in the state court
holding that where a “procedural default is the result of ineffective assistance of counsel, the Sixth Amendment itself requires that responsibility for the default be imputed to the State”
holding that proof of ineffective assistance by counsel satisfies the “cause” prong of the exception to the procedural default doctrine

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Judges: O'Connor, Burger, White, Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens, Blackmun, Brennan, Marshall

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