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In Shinn v. Ramirez and Jones, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that two Arizona death row inmates could not introduce new evidence in federal habeas court of ineffective counsel at the state trial, leading to the men’s 6th Amendment rights being compromised. The ruling is a reversal of the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling, Martinez v. Ryan.
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In Andrus v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Andrus’ petition for certiorari, declining to intervene in his death sentence and effectively overturning their own earlier ruling in June 2020 that Texas could not execute Andrus due to his ineffective defense counsel.