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Miss_Speller t1_j9mes1s wrote

Reply to comment by N8CCRG in Supreme Court sides with Arizona death row inmate seeking to challenge sentence in federal court by AudibleNod

Or, to quote Justice Elena Kagan:

>I think Kafka would have loved this. Cruz[the defendant] loses his Simmons claims on direct appeal because the Arizona courts say point-blank Simmons has never applied in Arizona. And then he loses the next time around because the Arizona courts say Simmons always applied in California. I mean, tails you win, heads I lose, whatever that expression is? I mean, how—how can you run a railroad that way?

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