United States v. Gustav W. Skurdal

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• finding that, because the denial of counsel under the circumstances was “prejudicial per se,” petitioner “demonstrated cause and prejudice for the failure to raise the contentions on direct appeal”
• finding that, because the denial of counsel under the circumstances was “prejudicial per se,” petitioner “demonstrated cause and prejudice for the failure to raise the contentions on direct appeal”
• finding that, because the denial of counsel under the circumstances was “prejudicial per se,” petitioner “demonstrated cause and prejudice for the failure to raise the contentions on direct appeal”
• finding that, because the denial of counsel under the circumstances was “prejudicial per se,” petitioner “demonstrated cause and prejudice for the failure to raise the contentions on direct appeal”
• “If a criminal defendant could have raised a claim of error on direct appeal but 8 nonetheless failed to do so, he must demonstrate both cause excusing his procedural default, and 9 actual prejudice resulting from the claim of error.”

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