Ronnie Maurice Howard v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that a claim’s “novelty” can “meet the cause require- ment” to excuse a procedural default
• ‘‘[a]t the risk of oversimplification, for purposes of the second Teague exception there are new rules, and then there are new Gideon-extension rules’’
• “The lesson of all these decisions, we believe, is that the second Teague exception is so tight that very few new rules will ever squeeze through it.”
• “That is why the Shelton Court was able to observe that ‘courts have divided on the Sixth Amendment question presented in this case.’ ”
• “The lesson of all these decisions, we believe, is that the second Teague exception is so tight that very few new rules will ever squeeze through it.”
• “The exception that proves the exception ... is a new Gideon-related rule.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).