ignorance-of-law

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-7836 Tony Michael Julien v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-authority criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process ignorance-of-law jurisdiction legal-maxim procedural-law retroactive time-limitation Can the mere passage of time retroactively confer jurisdiction on a court that did not and does not otherwise have jurisdiction?
18-671 Kurt Robert Smith v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 aedpa federal-law federal-review habeas-corpus ignorance-of-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ignorance reasonable-counsel strategic-decision Must a court reviewing counsel's failure to investigate first determine whether the basis for the failure was counsel's ignorance of the law, or anoth…