
Supreme Court Rules in Double Jeopardy Case
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Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Six justices on the court, with justice thomas, say that when you're bringing an ineffective assistance of council claim in the federal silo, that third silo, you can't present ance for that claim. The result is it someone who claims that they are innocent of the crime to which they are being put to death will rely on the fact that their lawyer didn't actually investigate whether they committed the crime. That's just not protected by the constitution. So what do you do? And six justices on the Court, with Justice th Thomas, say: these are directly in conflict. When a supreme court precedent is directly in conflict with a statute passed by congress, signed into law by
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