Supreme Court rules against inmates in right-to-counsel case
WASHINGTON — (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled along ideological lines Monday against two Arizona death row inmates who had argued that their lawyers did a poor job representing them in state court. The ruling will make it harder for certain inmates sentenced to death or long terms in prison who believe their lawyers failed them to bring challenges on those grounds. The ruling involves cases brought to federal court after state court review. The men then took their cases to federal court. A Supreme Court ruling from 2012 opened an avenue for prisoners to make ineffective assistance of counsel claims in federal court.
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