The supreme court says you can get a new proceeding if your lawyer sucks, but the new lawyer can't introduce new evidence. It is saying that even when the lawyer has done such a poor job that you know their performance is constitutionally inadequate, that constitutionally inadequate performance can be used against their client. Who's behind this decision of the supreme court? So this was a six to three decision, and and it fell along party lines. But the court's been moving to the right for a really long time now. And as it turns out, tink w we may now have six justices who agreed with this view, that, hey, if you're innocent, doesn't matter. That was a fr
The Supreme Court is going to let Arizona kill Barry Jones, a man whose rape and murder convictions were vacated in 2018.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Tori Dominguez, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.
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