Davis v. Ayala

Docket Number13-1428
Decision Date18 June 2015

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    • United States
    • California Supreme Court
    • February 1, 2021
    ...intent’ "]; Foster v. Chatman (2016) 578 U.S. ––––, 136 S.Ct. 1737, 1747, 195 L.Ed.2d 1 ( Foster ); Davis v. Ayala (2015) 576 U.S. 257, 270, 135 S.Ct. 2187, 2199, 192 L.Ed.2d 323 ( Ayala ); People v. Smith (2018) 4 Cal.5th 1134, 1147, 233 Cal.Rptr.3d 1, 417 P.3d 662.) "The existence or none......
  • Said v. United States
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Eastern District of Virginia
    • July 19, 2021
    ...v. Jones, 935 F.3d 266, 274 (5th Cir. 2019); see also, United States v. McClaren, 998 F.3d 203, 230 (5th Cir. 2021); See Davis v. Ayala, 576 U.S. 257, at 267-68 (2015) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted) ("[R]elief is proper [on collateralreview] only if the ... court has grave......
  • Noguera v. Davis
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Central District of California
    • November 17, 2017
    ...is not entitled to relief based on trial error, unless the error resulted in "actual prejudice." Davis v. Ayala , ––– U.S. ––––, 135 S.Ct. 2187, 2197, 192 L.Ed.2d 323 (2015) (citing Brecht , 507 U.S. at 637, 113 S.Ct. 1710 ); Darden v. Wainwright , 477 U.S. at 181, 106 S.Ct. 2464 ; Chapman ......
  • Chinn v. Warden, Chillicothe Corr. Inst.
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Southern District of Ohio
    • May 29, 2020
    ...on the procedural state of a criminal defendant's challenge to his conviction, different harmless-error tests apply. Davis v. Ayala, 576 U.S. 257(2015). On direct appeal in state courts, the harmless formulation of Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18, 87 S.Ct. 824, 17 L.Ed.2d 705 (1967), gov......
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  • SCOTUS grants cert to address circuit split over “harmlessness” in federal habeas review
    • United States
    • LexBlog United States
    • April 5, 2021
    ...Federal law.” Although the Court has held that the Brecht test “subsumes” § 2254(d)(1)’s requirements, the Court declared in Davis v. Ayala, 576 U.S. 257, 267 (2015), that those requirements are still a “precondition” for relief and that a state-court harmlessness determination under Chapma......
  • SCOTUS grants cert to address circuit split over "harmlessness" in federal habeas review
    • United States
    • LexBlog United States
    • April 5, 2021
    ...Federal law.” Although the Court has held that the Brecht test “subsumes” § 2254(d)(1)’s requirements, the Court declared in Davis v. Ayala, 576 U.S. 257, 267 (2015), that those requirements are still a “precondition” for relief and that a state-court harmlessness determination under Chapma......
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  • The Death Penalty & the Dignity Clauses
    • United States
    • Iowa Law Review No. 102-2, January 2017
    • January 1, 2017
    ...(“[N]early all death penalty States keep death row inmates in isolation for 22 or more hours per day.”). 379. Davis v. Ayala, 135 S. Ct. 2187, 2209 (2015); see also Alex Kozinski, Worse Than Death , 125 YALE L.J. F. 230, 230 (2016) (“Solitary confinement is just as bad as the death penalty,......
  • THE REASONABLENESS OF THE "REASONABLENESS" STANDARD OF HABEAS CORPUS REVIEW UNDER THE ANTITERRORISM AND EFFECTIVE DEATH PENALTY ACT OF 1996.
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    • Case Western Reserve Law Review Vol. 72 No. 3, March 2022
    • March 22, 2022
    ...bulwark against erroneous factual determinations. To presume otherwise is to make light of Winship."). (204.) Id. at 332 n.5. (205.) 576 U.S. 257, 276 (2015) ("The role of a federal habeas court is to '"guard against extreme malfunctions in the state criminal justice systems,"' not to apply......
  • America's Written Constitution: Remembering the Judicial Duty to say what the Law is
    • United States
    • Capital University Law Review No. 43-4, December 2015
    • December 1, 2015
    ...embrace or provide for the infinite variety of human affairs, or should furnish rules applicable to all of them.”). C.f. Davis v. Ayala, 135 S. Ct. 2187, 2212 (2015) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting) (dissenting on behalf of the “the basic background principle” of the adversarial process which th......
  • F. Your Right to Be Free from Cruel and Unusual Punishment
    • United States
    • The Jailhouse Lawyer's Handbook (CCR) Chapter Three
    • Invalid date
    ...non-binding opinions, Justice Anthony Kennedy has said, "[y]ears on end of near-total isolation exact a terrible price." Davis v. Ayala, 135 S. Ct. 2187, 2210 (2015) (Kennedy, J., concurring). Justice Stephen Breyer has said, "it is well documented that . . . prolonged solitary confinement ......
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