Shinn v. Ramirez

Shinn v. Ramirez
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 8, 2021 Decided May 23, 2022
Full case name	David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. v. David Martinez Ramirez and Barry Lee Jones
Docket no.	20-1009
Citations	596 U.S. ___ (more)
Argument	Oral argument
Holding
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2), a federal habeas court may not conduct an evidentiary hearing or otherwise consider evidence beyond the state-court record based on the ineffective assistance of state postconviction counsel.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan · Neil Gorsuch Brett Kavanaugh · Amy Coney Barrett
Case opinions
Majority	Thomas, joined by Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett
Dissent	Sotomayor, joined by Breyer, Kagan
Laws applied
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996

Shinn v. Ramirez, 596 U.S. ___ (2022), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court related to the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. The court held that new evidence that was not in the state court's records, based on ineffective assistance of post-conviction counsel, could not be used in an appeal to a federal court.