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SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 10, 2021
In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. Washington. On remand, the Texas court ruled that the inadequate counsel had not prejudiced Andrus. Filing a new petition in a second Andrus v.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 30, 2022
After lingering on the court’s docket for more than a year, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal , ruling in an unsigned opinion that death-row prisoner Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided constitutionally ineffective performance at sentencing by failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.
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