Rodger v. Electronic Data Systems Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding no prejudice shown where attorney failed to talk to all of the State's witnesses and did not seek funds for an investigator
• holding state’s failure to raise in district court arguments that petitioner had both failed to exhaust State remedies with regard to constitutional claim and waived that claim through procedural default barred state from prevailing on that claim in the Court of Appeals
• holding state's failure to raise in district court arguments that petitioner had both failed to exhaust State remedies with regard to constitutional claim and waived that claim through procedural default barred state from prevailing on that claim in the Court of Appeals
• state's failure to raise procedural default in district court precludes state from raising waiver issue in court of appeals
• state’s failure to raise procedural default in district court precludes state from raising waiver issue in court of appeals
• defendant in his pro se brief argued that it made sense to kill and “eliminate the only possible witness to the crime of kidnapping, aggravated robbery and sexual assault,” and we held this to be heinous and depraved

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