Keeney v. Tamayo-Reyes

Keeney v. Tamayo-Reyes
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 4, 1992
Full case name	Keeney v. Tamayo-Reyes
Citations	504 U.S. 1 (more)
Holding
A cause-and-prejudice standard, rather than Fay v. Noia's deliberate bypass standard, is the correct standard for excusing a habeas corpus petitioner's failure to develop a material fact in state-court proceedings.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Case opinions
Majority	White, joined by Rehnquist, Scalia, Souter, Thomas
Dissent	O'Connor, joined by Blackmun, Stevens, Kennedy
Dissent	Kennedy
This case overturned a previous ruling or rulings
Townsend v. Sain

Keeney v. Tamayo-Reyes, 504 U.S. 1 (1992), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a cause-and-prejudice standard, rather than Fay v. Noia's deliberate bypass standard, is the correct standard for excusing a habeas corpus petitioner's failure to develop a material fact in state-court proceedings.^[1] This decision increased the deference that federal courts are supposed to give to the record in underlying state court proceedings when evaluating habeas petitions.^[2]

• Text of Keeney v. Tamayo-Reyes, 504 U.S. 1 (1992) is available from: Cornell Findlaw Justia

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