Robert St. Pierre v. Roger D. Cowan, Warden, Menard Correctional Center

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• finding that a waiver was not valid because no court ever had a chance to question the petitioner on the record as to his intentions and understanding
• finding that a waiver was not valid because no court ever had a chance to question the petitioner on the record as to his intentions and understanding
• discussing the application of due process to state postconvic- tion relief
• noting the lack of “any kind of proceeding, formal or informal, at which any court was able to assure itself that [the] waiver . . . satisfied the requirements for a knowing and voluntary waiver and that [the petitioner] intended it to be a waiver”
• waiver can be invalidated if a judge affirmatively misinforms a defendant about the one juror rule
• trial judge’s ambiguous reference to unanimity could reasonably imply that unanimity was required both to impose or reject the death penalty

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