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A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim

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Colorado Civil Rights Commission (relisted 14 times). Andrus argues that the Texas court “disregard[ed] this Court’s determinations and legal precedents to strain for a result that it prefers,” and in the process violated “vertical stare decisis,” the principle that lower courts must follow the Supreme Court’s decisions.