Hughes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “We review an appeal from summary denial of post-conviction relief as we would review an appeal from a summary judgment. The party opposing the motion for summary disposition is entitled to all reasonable inferences to be drawn from the evidence and is entitled to an eviden-tiary hearing if a reasonable inference raises a genuine issue of material fact. For summary judgment purposes, the evidentiary assertions of the party opposing the motion are assumed to be true.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ude v. State

2. “show how, but for the attorneys' errors, the results of the proceedings would have been different”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Everett v. State