Monday, March 28, 2022
SCOTUS Cert Grant on the Adequate Independent State Ground Doctrine: Cruz v. Arizona
Today the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Cruz v. Arizona, limited to the following question:
Whether the Arizona Supreme Court’s holding that Arizona Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1(g) precluded post-conviction relief is an adequate and independent state-law ground for the judgment.
You can find the cert-stage briefing—and follow the merits briefs as they come in—at SCOTUSblog and at the Supreme Court website.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2022/03/scotus-cert-grant-on-the-adequate-independent-state-ground-doctrine-cruz-v-arizona.html