Sedrice Maurice Simpson v. Larry Norris, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

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• declaring, “the availability of a similar claim under Arkansas law is irrelevant to our consideration here”
• declaring, “the availability of a similar claim under Arkansas law is irrelevant to our consideration here”
• concluding the existence of an Arkansas statute that precluded the execution of the mentally retarded was irrelevant to whether the applicant had defaulted an Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 321 (2002), claim by failing to bring the claim under the statute
• “[W]here there is no constitutional right to counsel there can be no deprivation of effective assistance.”
• \where there is no constitutional right to counsel there can be no deprivation of effective assistance.\

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