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Williams Vs. Taylor, Warden

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 18, 2000

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  15. Williams V. Taylor
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  16. Warden - 529 U.S. 362 (2000) October Term, 1999 Syllabus Williams V. Taylor
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  17. and present significant mitigating evidence violated his right to the effective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington
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  18. inter alia, that the trial judge had failed to recognize that Strickland had been modified by Lockhart v. Fretwell
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  19. that the Virginia Supreme Court apply that test in entertaining Williams' ineffectiveassistance claim. See Teague v. Lane
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  20. fairness may affect the analysis, see Strickland, 466 U. S., at 692, cases such as Lockhart and Nix v. Whiteside
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  21. ask whether the state court's application of clearly established federal law was objectively unreasonable. Cf. Wright v. West
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  22. decision. In this respect, the quoted phrase bears only a slight connection to this Court's jurisprudence under Teague v. Lane
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  23. see, e. g., Stringer v. Black
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  24. are whether Terry Williams' constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel as defined in Strickland v. Washington
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  25. the death sentence. Id., at 154. The Virginia Supreme Court affirmed the conviction and sentence. Williams v. Commonwealth
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  26. Va. 168, 360 S. E. 2d 361 (1987), cert. denied, Williams v. Virginia
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  27. did not measure up to the standard required under the holding of Strickland v. Washington
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  28. on the sentencing phase of his trial. The Virginia Supreme Court did not accept that recommendation. Williams v. Warden
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  29. but held that the trial judge had misapplied the law in two respects. First, relying on our decision in Lockhart v. Fretwell
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  30. Id., at 865 (quoting Green v. French
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  31. not alone be sufficient reason for concluding that a prisoner is entitled to the remedy of habeas. See, e. g., Stone v. Powell
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  32. fairness of the state adjudication certainly justify the issuance of the federal writ. See, e. g., Teague v. Lane
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  33. U. S. 288 , 311-314 (1989) (quoting Mackey v. United
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  34. U. S. 667 , 692-694 (1971) (Harlan, J., concurring in judgments in part and dissenting in part), and quoting Rose v. Lundy
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  35. the Court of Appeals applied the construction of the amendment that it had adopted in its earlier opinion in Green v. French
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  36. requirement In Teague v. Lane
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  37. Ex parte Hawk, 321 U. S. 114 (1944) (per curiam), and the abuse of the writ doctrine applied in Sanders v. United
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  38. as we stated in Miller v. Fenton
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  39. was an almost verbatim codification of the standards delineated in Townsend v. Sain
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  40. Mackey, 401 U. S., at 695 (quoting Desist v. United
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  41. by state courts. 383 Brief for California et al. as Amici Curiae 6 (quoting Butler v. McKellar
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  42. would agree the rule was not clearly established. Sawyer v. Smith
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  43. decisions, and give them full effect when their findings and judgments are consistent with federal law. See Thompson v. Keohane
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  44. review of so-called mixed questions of law and fact. See, e. g., Neelley v. Nagle
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  45. Drinkard v. Johnson
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  46. the governing rule of law. Cf. Miller v. Fenton
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  47. that the Federal Judiciary must respect. Universal Camera Corp. v. NLRB
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  48. courts the way we treat federal administrative agencies. Deference after the fashion of Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural
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  49. Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U. S. 837 ... (1984), depends on delegation. See Adams Fruit Co. v. Barrett
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  50. standard advocated by JUSTICE THOMAS in his opinion in Wright v. West
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