74 Cited authorities

Miller-El v. Cockrell
537 U.S. 322 (2003) Cited 48,513 times 14 Legal Analyses
Holding that the government's exclusion of 10 out of 14, or 91%, of Black prospective jurors—along with the state's unreliable justifications—showed purposeful discrimination
Strickland v. Washington
466 U.S. 668 (1984) Cited 158,786 times 176 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"
Wiggins v. Smith
539 U.S. 510 (2003) Cited 9,480 times 45 Legal Analyses
Holding that counsel's performance was deficient when they failed to expand their investigation into the defendant's life history "after having acquired only rudimentary knowledge of his history from a narrow set of sources," especially when those sources indicated the existence of helpful mitigation evidence
Bell v. Cone
535 U.S. 685 (2002) Cited 9,826 times 14 Legal Analyses
Holding that state court adjudication that “correctly identified the principles announced [by the Supreme Court] as those governing the analysis ... was [not] contrary to ... clearly established law”
Batson v. Kentucky
476 U.S. 79 (1986) Cited 15,239 times 61 Legal Analyses
Holding that the Equal Protection Clause applies to the use of peremptory strikes
Miller-El v. Dretke
545 U.S. 231 (2005) Cited 2,699 times 15 Legal Analyses
Holding that a prosecutor “would have cleared up any misunderstanding by asking further questions” if he truly considered a race-neutral characteristic grounds for a peremptory strike
United States v. Cronic
466 U.S. 648 (1984) Cited 7,368 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"
Purkett v. Elem
514 U.S. 765 (1995) Cited 3,008 times 7 Legal Analyses
Holding a Court of Appeals erred by combining Batson’s second and third steps
Davis v. United States
512 U.S. 452 (1994) Cited 3,049 times 25 Legal Analyses
Holding "the suspect must unambiguously request counsel."
Arizona v. Youngblood
488 U.S. 51 (1988) Cited 3,874 times 15 Legal Analyses
Holding that "unless a criminal defendant can show bad faith on the part of the police, failure to preserve potentially useful evidence does not constitute a denial of due process of law"

PEOPLE v. DUFF

74 Cited authorities

Holding that the government's exclusion of 10 out of 14, or 91%, of Black prospective jurors—along with the state's unreliable justifications—showed purposeful discrimination

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"

Holding that state court adjudication that “correctly identified the principles announced [by the Supreme Court] as those governing the analysis ... was [not] contrary to ... clearly established law”

Holding that the Equal Protection Clause applies to the use of peremptory strikes

Holding that a prosecutor “would have cleared up any misunderstanding by asking further questions” if he truly considered a race-neutral characteristic grounds for a peremptory strike

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"

Holding a Court of Appeals erred by combining Batson’s second and third steps

Holding "the suspect must unambiguously request counsel."

Holding that "unless a criminal defendant can show bad faith on the part of the police, failure to preserve potentially useful evidence does not constitute a denial of due process of law"