Russell Bryan Hadley v. Paul Caspari

Russell Bryan Hadley, an inmate at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Facility in Pacific, Missouri, filed a petition for habeas corpus relief which included claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court denied Hadley’s request for a full evidentiary hearing and denied his petition, finding that his ineffective assistance claims were proeedurally barred due to failure to raise them to the Missouri Court of Appeals. Hadley contends that the district court erred in finding these claims procedurally barred. We agree.

Claims presented in a habeas corpus…