EDWARDS v. CARPENTER

No. 98-2060.

529 U.S. 446 (2000)

EDWARDS, WARDEN v. CARPENTER

United States Supreme Court.

Decided April 25, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward B. Foley, State Solicitor of Ohio, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, David M. Gormley, and Stephen P. Carney.

J. Joseph Bodine, Jr., argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were David H. Bodiker, Laurence E. Komp, and Angela Wilson Miller.*

Scalia, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, and Ginsburg, JJ., joined. Breyer, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Stevens, J., joined, p. 454.


Justice Scalia, delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case presents the question whether a federal habeas court is barred from considering an ineffective-assistanceof-counsel claim as "cause" for the procedural default of another claim when the ineffective-assistance claim has itself been procedurally defaulted.

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Respondent was indicted by an Ohio grand jury for aggravated murder and aggravated robbery...

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