United States Supreme Court

Where, as here, a State's procedural framework, by reason of its design and operation, makes it highly unlikely in a typical case that a defendant will have a meaningful opportunity to raise an ineffective assistance-of-trial-counsel claim on direct appeal, the exception recognized in Martinez, that "a procedural default will not bar a federal habeas court from hearing a substantial claim of ineffective assistance at trial if, in the State’s initial-review collateral proceeding, there was no counsel or counsel in that proceeding was ineffective, still applies.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/28/2013
• Published 05/28/2013

Judges

• BREYER

Court

• United States Supreme Court

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