United States Supreme Court

In a case in which an Arizona prisoner claimed he received ineffective assistance of counsel both at trial and in an initial-review Arizona collateral proceeding, but in the initial-review Arizona collateral proceeding his attorney did not raise any claim that the trial attorney rendered ineffective assistance, denial of a petition for federal habeas corpus review is reversed, because in states like Arizona where ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claims must be raised in an initial-review collateral proceeding, a procedural default will not bar a federal habeas court from hearing those claims if, in the initial-review collateral proceeding, there was no counsel or counsel in that proceeding was ineffective.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/20/2012
• Published 03/20/2012

Judges

• Kennedy

Court

• United States Supreme Court

Counsel