Shinn v. Ramirez, & ... it's bad. #SCOTUS holds that a federal court may not conduct an evidentiary hearing in proceedings to challenge a conviction if the evidence was not developed in state court because state post-conviction counsel was

UGH UGH UGH. The upshot of this decision: If the state appoints you a lawyer who is constitutionally ineffective at your trial; and then appoints you ANOTHER lawyer who is constitutionally ineffective to argue your trial lawyer was ineffective ... you're screwed.

This is just a horrific decision that will close the Martinez exception that allowed litigants to enforce the 6th amendment right to counsel.

https://t.co/RSzCJcst6N

What Justice Sotomayor says: