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SCOTUS offering more habeas fun this Term with new cert grants

By Douglas Berman

As reported in this SCOTUSblog post, the US Supreme Court this morning granted cert in four new cases, and two involve habeas review:

[The] new cases includ[e] a plea to give convicted individuals a new chance to claim that their defense lawyers in state court failed to perform adequately.  That is an issue that arose in the wake of last Term’s decision in Martinez v. Ryan.  The new case on that question is Trevino v. Thaler (11-10870).

[Another of the] granted cases [includes] a test of whether a convicted individual’s claim of innocence of the crime will be treated as an excuse for failing to pursue a federal habeas challenge on time (McQuiggin v. Perkins, 12-126).