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Murray Vs. Carrier

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 26, 1986

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  10. United States Vs. Frady US Supreme Court · Apr 05, 1982
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  15. U.S. 478 (1986) U.S. Supreme Court Murray v. Carrier
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  16. U.S. 478 (1986) Murray v. Carrier
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  17. or failed to raise the claim despite recognizing it, does not constitute cause for a procedural default. Engle v. Isaac
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  18. by counsel whose performance is not constitutionally ineffective under the standard established in Strickland v. Washington
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  19. The Virginia Supreme Court refused the appeal, and this Court denied certiorari. Carrier v. Virginia
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  20. s failure to raise the issue on direct appeal was a procedural default barring federal habeas review under Wainwright v. Sykes
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  21. and that this error was cause for his default. A divided panel of the Court of Appeals reversed and remanded. Carrier v. Hutto
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  22. construed respondent's objection to the denial of discovery as having rested throughout on a contention that Brady v. Maryland
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  23. and the en banc Court of Appeals adopted the panel majority's decision, with four judges dissenting. Carrier v. Hutto
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  24. F.2d 520 (1985). We now reverse and remand. II Wainwright v. Sykes
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  25. in order to obtain review of his defaulted constitutional claim. 433 U.S. at 433 U. S. 87 . See also Francis v. Henderson
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  26. U. S. 536 (1976). In so holding, the Court explicitly rejected the standard described in Fay v. Noia
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  27. Id. at 372 U. S. 439 (quoting Johnson v. Zerbst
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  28. U. S. 458 , 304 U. S. 464 (1938)). See Wainwright v. Sykes
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  29. U.S. at 433 U. S. 87 -88. At a minimum, then, Wainwright v. Sykes
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  30. U.S. at 433 U. S. 87 . We revisited the cause and prejudice test in Engle v. Isaac
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  31. U. S. 107 (1982). Like Wainwright v. Sykes
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  32. we are not prepared to assume that these costs would be negligible, particularly since, as we observed in Strickland v. Washington
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  33. we note that a showing that the factual or legal basis for a claim was not reasonably available to counsel, see Reed v. Ross
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  34. Brown v. Allen
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  35. however, that the cause and prejudice test applies to procedural defaults on appeal, as we plainly indicated in Reed v. Ross
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  36. attack. The important role of appellate procedural rules is aptly captured by the Court's description in Reed v. Ross
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  37. procedural rule at issue in this case, warrant our adherence to the conclusion to which they led the Court in Reed v. Ross
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  38. Were we to accept that proposition, defaults on appeal would presumably be governed by a rule equivalent to Fay v. Noia's
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  39. whether counsel's decision not to take an appeal at all might require treatment under such a standard, see Wainwright v. Sykes
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  40. post at 477 U. S. 506 , n. 13 (quoting Rose v. Lundy
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  41. actual prejudice that is required by the cause and prejudice test as interpreted in Engle and in United States v. Frady
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  42. leaves little doubt that this is so. The showing of prejudice required under Page 477 U. S. 494 Wainwright v. Sykes
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  43. Frady, supra, at 456 U. S. 166 . See also Henderson v. Kibbe
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  44. be true that the former Rule 12(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, as interpreted in Shotwell Mfg. Co. v. United
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  45. States, 371 U. S. 341 (1963), and Davis v. United
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  46. there was cause for noncompliance with that rule. But, while the cause and prejudice test adopted in Wainwright v. Sykes
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  47. finds its antecedents in cases interpreting Rule 12(b)(2), the Court in Wainwright v. Sykes
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  48. the rule of Francis v. Henderson
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  49. to the vestigial role JUSTICE STEVENS envisions for it. Moreover, although neither Francis nor Wainwright v. Sykes
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  50. violated by even an isolated error of counsel if that error is sufficiently egregious and prejudicial. United States v. Cronic
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