Roesevelt Hayes v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• holding state court’s plain-error review does not excuse procedural default
• “An ineffective assistance of counsel claim cannot be based on a decision relating to a reasoned choice of trial strategy, even when proved improvident.”
• a § 2254 petition seeking a writ on an Arkansas conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).