NEW RULING

new ruling. Criminal procedure. A Supreme Court ruling not dictated by precedent existing when the defendant’s conviction became final and thus not applicable retroactively to habeas cases. • For example, when the Court in Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399, 106 S.Ct. 2595 (1986), ruled that the Eighth Amendment prohibits execution of insane prisoners, this […]