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Carter v. USA

RESPONSE TO 31 Order

37 Cited authorities

  1. Strickland v. Washington

    466 U.S. 668 (1984)   Cited 159,371 times   178 Legal Analyses
    Holding an "error by counsel" doesn't "warrant setting aside the judgment of a criminal proceeding" where in the context of the whole proceeding the identified error "had no effect on the judgment"

  2. United States v. Booker

    543 U.S. 220 (2005)   Cited 25,429 times   28 Legal Analyses
    Holding the Sentencing Guidelines are advisory

  3. Brecht v. Abrahamson

    507 U.S. 619 (1993)   Cited 11,845 times   30 Legal Analyses
    Holding that when a court has "never squarely addressed the issue, and ha at most assumed" something in a prior decision, it is "free to address the issue on the merits"

  4. Murray v. Carrier

    477 U.S. 478 (1986)   Cited 16,503 times   14 Legal Analyses
    Holding that constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel may provide cause for a procedural default

  5. Roe v. Flores-Ortega

    528 U.S. 470 (2000)   Cited 5,739 times   18 Legal Analyses
    Holding in criminal habeas context that counsel's failure to file a timely appeal is presumptively prejudicial, with no need for a "further showing from the defendant of the merits of his underlying claims"

  6. Jones v. Barnes

    463 U.S. 745 (1983)   Cited 11,178 times   21 Legal Analyses
    Holding that it was not ineffective assistance for appellate counsel to decline to make every nonfrivolous argument requested by the defendant

  7. Teague v. Lane

    489 U.S. 288 (1989)   Cited 7,719 times   99 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the rule announced in Taylor v. Louisiana requiring the jury venire be drawn from a fair cross section of the community is procedural and does not apply retroactively

  8. United States v. Cronic

    466 U.S. 648 (1984)   Cited 7,395 times   30 Legal Analyses
    Holding defendant is constructively denied counsel during critical stage of criminal proceedings where counsel, inter alia, "fails to subject the prosecution's case to meaningful adversarial testing"

  9. Wainwright v. Sykes

    433 U.S. 72 (1977)   Cited 8,776 times   12 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a state procedural waiver of a federal claim will serve to bar to federal habeas review of the claim absent a showing of "cause and prejudice"

  10. Reed v. Farley

    512 U.S. 339 (1994)   Cited 1,966 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, in a § 2254 proceeding, a state court's failure to observe speedy trial requirements was not cognizable when the failure did not prejudice the defendant

  11. Section 2255 - Federal custody; remedies on motion attacking sentence

    28 U.S.C. § 2255   Cited 129,797 times   129 Legal Analyses
    Adopting one-year limitations period for §2255 motions

  12. Section 924 - Penalties

    18 U.S.C. § 924   Cited 66,001 times   187 Legal Analyses
    Holding that conviction for eluding police, under Maine statute which provides that "[w]hoever, after being requested or signaled to stop, attempts to elude a law enforcement officer by driving a vehicle at a reckless rate of speed which results in a high-speed chase between the operator's vehicle and any law enforcement vehicle using a blue light and siren is guilty" of a felony-level crime, involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)

  13. Section 922 - Unlawful acts

    18 U.S.C. § 922   Cited 60,757 times   183 Legal Analyses
    Finding that "even before the sale of a firearm, the gun, its component parts, ammunition, and the raw materials from which they are made have considerably moved in interstate commerce"

  14. Section 1951 - Interference with commerce by threats or violence

    18 U.S.C. § 1951   Cited 11,643 times   51 Legal Analyses
    Defining extortion in ACCA as “the obtaining of something of value from another, with his consent, induced by the wrongful use or threatened use of force against the person or property of another ”

  15. Section 21a-277 - (Formerly Sec. 19-480). Penalty for illegal manufacture, distribution, sale, prescription, dispensing

    Conn. Gen. Stat. § 21a-277   Cited 168 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Providing that anyone who violates the provision "shall be imprisoned not more than fifteen years"

  16. Section 53-21 - Injury or risk of injury to, or impairing morals of, children. Sale of children

    Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53-21   Cited 159 times

    (a) Any person who (1) wilfully or unlawfully causes or permits any child under the age of sixteen years to be placed in such a situation that the life or limb of such child is endangered, the health of such child is likely to be injured or the morals of such child are likely to be impaired, or does any act likely to impair the health or morals of any such child, or (2) has contact with the intimate parts, as defined in section 53a-65, of a child under the age of sixteen years or subjects a child

  17. Section 53a-136 - Robbery in the third degree: Class D felony

    Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53a-136   Cited 14 times

    (a) A person is guilty of robbery in the third degree when he commits robbery as defined in section 53a-133. (b) Robbery in the third degree is a class D felony. Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53a-136 (1969, P.A. 828, S. 138; P.A. 92-260, S. 60.) Cited. 169 Conn. 247; 171 Conn. 105; 181 Conn. 388; 185 Conn. 260; 188 C. 591; 190 Conn. 428; 192 Conn. 618; 197 C. 314; 198 Conn. 285; 199 C. 557; 202 Conn. 224; 205 Conn. 61; 209 Conn. 23; 210 Conn. 435; 218 Conn. 432; 219 Conn. 160; 239 Conn. 235. Rational basis