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939 F.2d 586

Docket No. 90-1550.

Henderson v. Sargent

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided July 22, 1991.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied Aug. 23, 1991.

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1991-07-22

Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1997

8 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“where a constitutional violation has probably resulted in the conviction of one who is actually innocent, a federal habeas court may grant the writ even in the absence of a showing of cause for the procedural default.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Cornman v. Armontrout

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Henderson v. Sargent

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1991-07-22

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¶1Jack Gillean, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

¶2Gerald Coleman, West Memphis, Ark., for appellee.

¶3Before LAY, Chief Judge, McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge, and HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

¶4ORDER GRANTING REHEARING IN PART.

¶5The court grants in part the petition for rehearing. The court amends its earlier opinion filed February 19, 1991, 926 F.2d 706 (8th Cir.) as follows: The discussion within Part A of the opinion previously filed which holds Rule 37 counsel ineffective under the standards set forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984), and finds cause to lift the procedural bar is hereby vacated. See Coleman v. Thompson, — U.S. —, 111 S.Ct. 2546, 115 L.Ed.2d 640 (1991).

¶6All other discussions within Part A and the court’s holding that the constitutional violation based on trial counsel’s ineffectiveness “probably resulted in the conviction of one who is actually innocent” is reaffirmed. Accordingly the district court’s grant of the writ of habeas corpus vacating Henderson’s conviction is reaffirmed.

¶7The suggestion for rehearing en banc as to the alternative holding by the panel is now hereby referred to the full court.

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