William Quentin Jones v. Roy Cooper, Attorney General, State of North Carolina R.C. Lee, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina

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• holding that Ruiz foreclosed any claim by the defendant that the prosecutor’s failure to disclose information potentially relevant as mitigation evidence in the death-penalty phase of defendant’s trial served to invalidate his guilty plea
• holding that Ruiz foreclosed any claim by the defendant that the prosecutor’s failure to disclose information potentially relevant as mitigation evidence in the death-penalty phase of defendant’s trial served to invalidate his guilty plea
• refusing to presume bias from the fact that juror’s relatives had been arrested and tried
• inquiring, for purposes of relief under Mc-Donough, whether a juror would have been excused on the basis of actual, implied or inferable bias, and separately inquiring whether relief was warranted on the basis of actual or implied bias
• “Misstatements on a jury questionnaire . . . are troubling, but do not, standing alone, indicate juror bias.”
• “Misstatements on a jury questionnaire such as those here are troubling, but do not, standing alone, indicate juror bias.”

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