Uluches Jefferson v. George C. Welborn

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a COA should issue unless the claims are “utterly without merit”
• holding that the Illi- nois Supreme Court is “the master of its own procedural rules”
• holding that the first Slack prong was satisfied because \[a]t least some of [the applicant’s] claims\ alleged the denial of a constitutional right
• explaining that a COA should issue unless the claims are \utterly without merit\
• distinguishing between a “substantive lack of merit” and a “procedural” failing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).