Rodney Clay Evans v. Allen Luebbers, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center

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• determining the state of mind exception applied to a victim’s former statements that she feared the defendant, who was accused of first-degree murder
• \[T]he Crawford Court did not suggest that this doctrine would apply retroactively and the doctrine itself does not appear to fall within either of the two narrow exceptions to Teague v. Lane 's non-retroactivity doctrine.\
• “In order for ineffective assistance of counsel claim itself to be cause to excuse a procedural default, the ineffective assistance of counsel must rise to the level of an independent constitutional violation.”
• relying on Lenza v. Wyrick, 665 F.2d 804 (8th Cir.1981)

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