Tyrone Williams v. Superintendent Mahanoy SCI

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• holding that federal courts “should decide whether an underlying ineffectiveness claim succeeds considering only the state court record”
• holding that Ramirez did not abrogate the circuit’s holding that AEDPA does not forbid factual development regarding excusing procedural default
• finding that the Strickland standard may not excuse counsel’s conduct based solely on a witnesses’ willingness to testify because testimony could be compelled through a subpoena
• noting that AEDPA’s prohibition is not limited to formal evidentiary hearings and applies whenever the petitioner wants to expand the record beyond that developed in state court
• holding, after Shinn, that while prosecution failed to identify a strategic justification in the record for defense counsel’s actions, “it [was] not difficult to identify one.” (quotation omitted)
• clarifying that, after Shinn, the proper procedure for determining whether to excuse a petitioner’s procedural default is to first “decide whether an underlying ineffectiveness claim succeeds considering only the state court record” before holding a Martinez hearing

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Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Mullis v. Lumpkin
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-06-19· cited 6×
• United States v. Reginald Hopkins
  Third Circuit· 2024-07-09· cited 1×
• United States v. Reginald Hopkins
  Third Circuit· 2024-08-02
• Kevin Johnson v. Superintendent Mahanoy SCI
  Third Circuit· 2025-07-14
• Paul Taylor v. Commissioner of Pennsylvania D
  Third Circuit· 2025-08-13

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Coleman v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 12,560×
• Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 5,961×
• McMann v. Richardson
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-04· cited 5,113×
• Martinez v. Ryan
  Supreme Court· 2012-03-20· cited 4,115×
• Pennsylvania v. Ritchie
  Supreme Court· 1987-02-24· cited 2,521×
• Yarborough v. Gentry
  Supreme Court· 2003-10-20· cited 1,480×
• Garza v. Idaho
  Supreme Court· 2019-02-27· cited 532×
• Holland v. Jackson
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-28· cited 350×
• Florencio Rolan v. Donald T. Vaughn, State Correctional Institution-Graterford the District Attorney of Philadelphia
  Third Circuit· 2006-04-18· cited 202×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-12-17· cited 154×
• Taibu Grant v. Melvin Lockett
  Third Circuit· 2013-03-07· cited 115×
• Lewis v. Horn
  Third Circuit· 2009-09-14· cited 114×
• Damien Preston v. Superintendent Graterford SCI
  Third Circuit· 2018-09-05· cited 114×
• Antyane Robinson v. Jeffrey Beard
  Third Circuit· 2014-08-12· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Long
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-05-26· cited 17×

Other cases named Tyrone Williams v. Superintendent Mahanoy SCI

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Tyrone Williams v. Superintendent Mahanoy SCI
  Third Circuit· 2022-08-18