Murray v. Carrier
- Decided
- June 26, 1986
- Docket
- 84-1554
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
Cited 7,499 timesSuperseded on other grounds (not yet verified)Possible negative treatment: superseded on other grounds (not yet verified)
What later courts said
- holding that cause must turn on “whether the prisoner can show that some objective factor external to the defense impeded counsel’s efforts to comply with the State’s procedural rule” — Rose v. Lee (2001)
- holding that good cause exists when “some objective factor external to the defense impeded counsel’s efforts to comply with [a] State’s procedural rule” — Flanagan v. Commonwealth (2011)
- holding that a habeas petitioner may avoid procedural default by showing that counsel's performance was constitutionally ineffective — Erwin Jackson v. Arthur Leonardo, Superintendent of Great Meadow Correctional Facility (1998)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
[*481] Justice O’Connor delivered the opinion of the Court.
We granted certoriari in this case to consider whether a federal habeas petitioner can show cause for a procedural default by establishing that competent defense counsel inad [*482] vertently failed to raise the substantive claim of error rather than deliberately withholding it for tactical reasons.
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Statutes cited
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Murray v. Carrier, 477 U.S. 478 (1986)Read the full opinion
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