A new 'absolutely atrocious' opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court's right-wing majority, one critic warned, 'effectively ensures that innocent people will remain imprisoned.'
from the U.S. Supreme Court's right-wing majority that could lead to the indefinite imprisonment and even execution of people who argue their lawyers didn't provide adequate representation after convictions in state court.Justice Sonia Sotomayor—joined by the other two liberals on the court—also blasted the majority opinion in, writing in her scathing dissent that the decision is both"perverse" and"illogical.
The case involved two men, David Martinez Ramirez and Barry Lee Jones, who are on death row in Arizona. The majority determined that inmates can't present new evidence in federal court to support a claim that their post-conviction attorney in state court was ineffective, in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the U.S.
Sotomayor, meanwhile, wrote that"the Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal defendants the right to the effective assistance of counsel at trial. This court has recognized that right as 'a bedrock principle' that constitutes the very 'foundation for our adversary system' of criminal justice." "Today, however, the court hamstrings the federal courts' authority to safeguard that right.
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