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Mccleskey Vs. Zant

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 16, 1991

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  1. Mccleskey Vs. Kemp US Supreme Court · Apr 22, 1987
    Distinguished
  2. Price Vs. Johnston US Supreme Court · May 24, 1948
  3. Moore Vs. Dempsey US Supreme Court · Feb 19, 1923
  4. Wainwright Vs. Sykes US Supreme Court · Jun 23, 1977
  5. Rose Vs. Lundy US Supreme Court · Mar 03, 1982
  6. Fay Vs. Noia US Supreme Court · Mar 18, 1963
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  7. Delo Vs. Stokes US Supreme Court · May 11, 1990
  8. Amadeo Vs. Zant US Supreme Court · May 31, 1988
  9. Frank Vs. Mangum US Supreme Court · Apr 12, 1915
  10. Stone Vs. Powell US Supreme Court · Jul 06, 1976
  11. Antone Vs. Dugger US Supreme Court · Jan 25, 1984
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  12. U.S. 467 (1991) U.S. Supreme Court McCleskey v. Zant
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  13. U.S. 467 (1991) McCleskey v. Zant
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  14. by the State to induce him to make incriminating statements without the assistance of counsel in violation of Massiah v. United
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  15. defined such abuse in an oblique way, through dicta and denials of certiorari petitions or stay applications, see Witt v. Wainwright
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  16. of the subject, has not always followed an unwavering line in its conclusions as to the writ's availability, Fay v. Noia
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  17. in order to establish that its inclusion in a subsequent petition constitutes abuse of the writ, see, e.g., Sanders v. United
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  18. the claim could have been raised in the first petition, but was omitted through inexcusable neglect, see, e.g., Delo v. Stokes
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  19. standard used to determine whether to excuse a habeas petitioner's state procedural defaults, see, e.g., Wainwright v. Sykes
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  20. the question whether he would be prejudiced by his inability to raise the claim need not be considered. See Murray v. Carrier
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  21. would not have prevented McCleskey from raising a Massiah claim in the first federal petition. Amadeo v. Zant
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  22. of habeas corpus. Petitioner Warren McCleskey, in a second federal habeas petition, presented a claim under Massiah v. United
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  23. in violation of Brady v. Maryland
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  24. U. S. 83 (1963). McClesky v. State
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  25. and Page 499 U. S. 472 affirmed his conviction and sentence. Ibid. We denied certiorari. McClesky v. Georgia
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  26. concerned Evans' testimony. First, McCleskey contended that the State violated his due process rights under Giglio v. United
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  27. alleged that admission of Evans' testimony violated the Sixth Amendment right to counsel as construed in Massiah v. United
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  28. application for a certificate of probable cause, and we denied his second petition for a writ of certiorari. McCleskey v. Zant
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  29. to Evans was a promise of favorable treatment, and that failure to disclose the promise violated Giglio. McCleskey v. Zant
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  30. granted relief. Id. at 384. The Court of Appeals reversed the District Court's grant of the writ. McCleskey v. Kemp
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  31. inculpatory admissions in violation of McCleskey's Sixth Amendment right to counsel. Massiah v. United
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  32. Court abused its discretion by failing to dismiss McCleskey's Massiah claim as an abuse of the writ. McCleskey v. Zant
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  33. a proper submission, the petitioner must show that he has not abused the writ in seeking habeas relief. See Sanders v. United
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  34. abuse of the writ in an oblique way, through dicta and denials of certiorari petitions or stay applications. See Witt v. Wainwright
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  35. expansion of the writ has come through judicial decisionmaking. As then-JUSTICE REHNQUIST explained in Wainwright v. Sykes
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  36. for confinement under a state conviction obtained without adequate procedural protections for the defendant. Frank v. Mangum
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  37. U. S. 86 (1923). Confronting this line of precedents extending the reach of the writ, in Waley v. Johnston
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  38. supra, 433 U.S. at 433 U. S. 79 (quoting Waley v. Johnston
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  39. Amendment violations that a petitioner has been given a full and fair opportunity to litigate in state court, Stone v. Powell
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  40. today appears to extend to all dispositive constitutional claims presented in a proper procedural manner. See Brown v. Allen
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  41. the common law rule, holding a denial of habeas relief Page 499 U. S. 480 res judicata. See, e.g., Perry v. McLendon
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  42. McMahon v. Mead
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  43. resolved the confusion over the continuing validity of the common law rule, at least for federal courts, in Salinger v. Loisel
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  44. U. S. 224 (1924), and Wong Doo v. United
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  45. Wong Doo v. United
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  46. vital relevance to the exercise of the court's discretion in determining whether to consider the petition. Price v. Johnston
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  47. ed.) (Reviser's Note), and we confirmed in Sanders v. United
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  48. Sanders v. United
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  49. Id. at 373 U. S. 18 . The Court also cited Fay v. Noia
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  50. U. S. 391 , 372 U. S. 438 -440 (1963), and Townsend v. Sain
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