adjudication-on-the-merits

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19-5653 Edward Lee Busby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 adjudication-on-the-merits atkins-claim due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standard-of-review state-court state-court-review When a state habeas court denies a petitioner relief on a federal constitutional claim by imposing a higher burden than is required by federal law, sh…
18-8788 Robert L. Moore v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2254-d-2 28-usc-2254-e-1 adjudication-on-merits adjudication-on-the-merits constitutional-claim de-novo-review federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-review Where a state court denies a person the opportunity to establish the necessary factual record to support a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel,…
18-8132 Anthony D. Phillips v. Bonita Hoffner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adjudication-on-the-merits AEDPA aedpa-standards constitutional-error due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a constitutional error reviewed under plain error standards is an adjudication on the merits; and whether AEDPA deferential standards of revie…