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63 S. C. L. Rev. 425 (2011-2012)
The Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Era

handle is hein.journals/sclr63 and id is 429 raw text is: TnE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL ERA Tom Zimpleman* I. A B STRA CT ................................................................................................... 425 I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................ 426 III. THE PREVALENCE OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAIMS IN HABEAS CORPUS LITIGATION ................................................................. 433 A. The Statistical Prevalence of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel C la im s .................................................................................................. 4 33 B. The Many Types of Ineffective Assistance ............................................ 439 IV. EXPLAINING THE POPULARITY OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF C O UN SEL ..................................................................................................... 446 A. It Is a Byproduct of Cause and Prejudice ............................................ 447 B. The Long Shadow of Gideon v. Wainwright ........................................ 449 C. Counsel's Role in the Corrective Process ............................................ 452 V. ENDING THE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL ERA ......................... 454 A. A Broad View of Reasonable Applications of Clearly Established Federal Law ..................................................................... 455 B. A Narrow View of Clearly Established Federal Law ............... 456 V I. C ON CLUSION ............................................................................................... 460 I. ABSTRACT Federal habeas corpus law, which concerns the intersection of federal criminal law and procedure, federal courts, and the division between federal and state sovereignty, has been the subject of one of the most dramatic doctrinal overhauls of the last thirty years from both legislative and judicial sources. Since the 1970s, the federal courts, using a variety of doctrinal tools, have created substantive and procedural restrictions on the ability of state prisoners to challenge their convictions in federal court, and Congress codified many of those restrictions and added a number of others with the passage of the Anti-Terrorism The author is a trial attorney with the Federal Programs Branch, Civil Division, of the U.S. Department of Justice. A.B., University of Chicago, 2003; J.D., Stanford Law School, 2008. The views expressed herein are solely those of the author and should not be taken to represent the views of the Department of Justice. Thanks to Robert Weisberg, Jeffrey Fisher, and Lawrence Marshall for helpful comments on earlier versions of this Essay.

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