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Tyler V. Cain: A Fork In The Path For Habeas Corpus Or The End Of The Road For Collateral Review?, Ronn Gehring
Tyler V. Cain: A Fork In The Path For Habeas Corpus Or The End Of The Road For Collateral Review?, Ronn Gehring
Akron Law Review
Tyler v. Cain is the latest decision in the ongoing evolution of the retroactivity doctrine in habeas corpus proceedings. The main issue this note presents is whether a state or federal inmate may apply a new constitutional rule promulgated by the Supreme Court retroactively on collateral review through a second or successive petition for habeas corpus, even though the rule was not applicable to the inmate’s original case. Under English common law, all new rules applied retroactively on both direct and collateral review. However, a divergence has occurred under American jurisprudence as to when new constitutional rules announced by the …