Quinn v. Texas

How courts have described this case

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• noting that when a prosecutor responds to an attack by trial counsel, the court assesses the response in light of the attack
• reasoning that though “questions can be relevant indicators of juror misperception,” jury questions are not dispositive without more (citing Hooks v. Workman, 606 F.3d 715, 743 (10th Cir. 2010)
• explaining in detail when mistakes by counsel can constitute “cause” to overcome a procedural default
• declining to review the petitioner’s argument on the miscarriage-of-justice exception because he failed to preserve it for appellate review
• rejecting habeas petitioner’s “infer[ence] [of] potential bases for conflicts” and “invit[ation] . . . to imagine the dilemma appellate counsel might be placed in” (brackets and quotations omitted)
• finding the defense invited the comments by 12 “attempt[ing] to elicit sympathy for Cuesta-Rodriguez’s family—his son in particular— 13 based on the pain they would feel if he received the death penalty”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).