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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6800 Jorge Espinosa v. New York New York 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP clear-cut-and-dispositive constitutional-right criminal-defense due-process error-and-prejudice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error prejudice-analysis single-error Strickland strickland-standard Whether all ineffective assistance of counsel claims are assessed under the Strickland error-and-prejudice rule, or whether such claims based on a sin…
18-185 Connecticut v. Michael Skakel Connecticut 2018-08-10 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-deficiency due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation overall-performance performance-evaluation single-error sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a court must evaluate counsel's overall performance in determining whether a single error is sufficiently egregious to render counsel's repres…