reasonable-strategy

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-6868 Billy Leon Kearse v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied IFP counsel-performance due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-strategy sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit's analysis of ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims fails to protect the Sixth-Amendment-right-to-effective-assistance…
22-5602 Edward Ellis, III v. Missouri Missouri 2022-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument missouri-law prejudice reasonable-strategy sixth-amendment trial-counsel witness-testimony Whether trial counsel can be held to have an objectively reasonable strategy in not making a legal argument when he never considered that legal argume…
18-6174 Edward Lang v. David Bobby, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied IFP deficient-performance due-process false-evidence false-theory ineffective-assistance juror-tampering presumption-of-prejudice reasonable-strategy reasonable-trial-strategy strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy Can the presentation of false evidence, in support of a false theory, constitute a reasonable trial strategy under Strickland v. Washington?