| 22-6713 |
Leonard Taylor v. David Vandergriff, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
actual-innocence death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus scientific-evidence |
Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence presents a cognizable constitutional claim under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 22A709 |
Leonard Taylor v. David Vandergriff, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2023-02-06 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
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| 21-7449 |
Leonard S. Taylor v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
capital-punishment capital-trial closing-argument ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan mccoy-v-louisiana nixon-v-florida sixth-amendment strickland-test strickland-v-washington |
Whether the decision to forego a closing argument in the penalty phase of a capital murder trial is a tactical decision for trial counsel to make or a… |