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Bell Vs. Cone

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 28, 2002

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  2. Ferguson Vs. Georgia US Supreme Court · Mar 27, 1961
  3. Williams Vs. Kaiser US Supreme Court · Jan 08, 1945
  4. United States Vs. Cronic US Supreme Court · May 14, 1984
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  5. Burger Vs. Kemp US Supreme Court · Jun 26, 1987
  6. Mickens Vs. Taylor US Supreme Court · Mar 27, 2002
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  8. U.S. 685 (2002) October Term, 2001 Syllabus Bell, Warden V. Cone
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  9. counsel's performance within the permissible range of competency under the attorney-performance standard of Strickland v. Washington
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  10. that respondent suffered a Sixth Amendment violation for which prejudice should be presumed under United States v. Cronic
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  11. or if it decides a case differently than this Court has done on a set of materially indistinguishable facts. Williams v. Taylor
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  12. other specific attorney errors subject to Strickland's performance and prejudice components. See, e. g., Darden v. Wainwright
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  13. his counsel rendered ineffective assistance during his sentencing hearing under principles announced in Strickland v. Washington
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  14. U. S. 668 (1984). The Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concluded that United States v. Cronic
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  15. enough to outweigh them. The Tennessee Supreme Court affirmed respondent's convictions and sentence on appeal, State v. Cone
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  16. of the Tennessee Criminal Court rejected this contention. The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed. Cone v. State
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  17. the court concluded that his performance was within the permissible range of competency, citing Baxter v. Rose
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  18. a decision the Tennessee Supreme Court deems to have announced the same attorney performance standard as Strickland v. Washington
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  19. U. S. 668 (1984). See, e. g., State v. Burns
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  20. at 357358. The Tennessee Supreme Court denied respondent permission to appeal, and we denied further review, Cone v. Tennessee
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  21. his second application for state postconviction relief was dismissed, respondent sought a federal writ 1 See Cone v. State
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  22. held that respondent suffered a Sixth Amendment violation for which prejudice should be presumed under United States v. Cronic
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  23. and to ensure that state-court convictions are given effect to the extent possible under law. See Williams v. Taylor
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  24. id., at 659, 662, a phrase we used 696 in Hamilton v. Alabama
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  25. U. S. 52 , 54 (1961), and White v. Maryland
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  26. Cronic, supra, at 659. Finally, we said that in cases like Powell v. Alabama
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  27. Brief for Respondent 26. We disagree. When we 3 In a footnote, we also cited other cases besides Hamilton v. Alabama
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  28. and White v. Maryland
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  29. criminal defendants who had actually or constructively been denied counsel by government action. See United States v. Cronic
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  30. U. S. 648 , 659, n. 25 (1984) (citing Geders v. United
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  31. Herring v. New
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  32. id., at 190. 698 land's performance and prejudice components. In Darden v. Wainwright
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  33. that counsel was ineffective for failing to put on any mitigating evidence at a capital sentencing hearing. In Burger v. Kemp
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  34. Ibid. (quoting Michel v. Louisiana
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  35. that the prosecution might elicit information about respondent's criminal history.5 5 Respondent cites Cozzolino v. State
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  36. of it. I don't believe that I understood the necessity ... of perhaps producing 5Her comments refer to Witherspoon v. Illinois
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  37. deficient, this would be the sort of strategic choice about which counsel would be owed deference under Strickland v. Washington
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  38. id., at 103, because the State Supreme Court found any error concerning the aggravators to be harmless, State v. Cone
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  39. courts did not have the benefit of evidence concerning Dice's mental health, it appears from Dice's 14 Cf. Penry v. Lynaugh
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  40. quoting California v. Brown
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  41. U. S. 538 , 545 (1987) (O'CONNOR, J., concurring))). 15 Cf. Herring v. New
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  42. Her ring v. New
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  43. within the meaning of Cronic. We recognized the importance of the exercise of such judgment in Strickland v. Washington
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  44. available mitigation evidence and fail to make a closing argument asking to spare the defendant's life. See Williams v. Taylor
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  45. and Darden v. Wainwright
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  46. both the importance of qualified counsel in death cases, and the frequent lack thereof. See, e. g., McFarland v. Scott
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  47. Syllabus Bell, Warden V. Cone
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  48. of Strickland v. Washington
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  49. Williams v. Taylor
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  50. Strickland v. Washington
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