Legal Opinion
Edwards v. Carpenter
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 25, 2000No. 98-2060PublishedCited by 1,814 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
This case presents the question whether a federal habeas court is barred from considering an ineffective-assistanee-of-counsel claim as “cause” for the procedural default of another claim when the ineffective-assistance claim has itself been procedurally defaulted.
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Respondent was indicted by an Ohio grand jury for aggravated murder and aggravated robbery. He entered a guilty plea while maintaining his innocence — a procedure we held to be constitutional in North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U. S. 25 (1970)—in exchange for the prosecution’s agreement that the guilty plea could be withdrawn if the…
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