adequate-state-grounds

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6442 Steven Lawayne Nelson v. Texas Texas 2025-02-03 Denied IFP adequate-state-grounds federal-law ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief sixth-amendment state-habeas Whether a state court's unexplained denial of a postconviction relief application can be presumed to lack adequate and independent state grounds when …
24-6099 Joseph William Hart v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied IFP adequate-state-grounds coleman-standard habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-procedural-rule timeliness-bar Did the Ninth Circuit misapply the standard for adequate state grounds when it found California's timeliness bar was 'firmly established and regularly…