Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Pitsch v. Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission

Pitsch v. Mich. Att’y Grievance Comm’n, 517 U.S. 1172 (1996)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1996-04-29
Topic
estate-planning

How later courts describe this case

  • “[a]t a minimum, ... the petitioner during direct appeal must have explicitly referred the state courts to the United States Constitution or federal case law”
  • “At minimum, though, the petitioner during direct appeal must have explicitly referred the state courts to the United States Constitution or federal case law.”
  • ‘Were protestation of innocence the only prerequisite to application of this exception, we fear that actual innocence would become a gateway forever open to habeas petitioners’ defaulted claims.”

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Sup. Ct. Mich. Certiorari denied.