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Adkins v. State

Citations

  • 911 S.W.2d 334

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that a petitioner is not entitled to the benefit of hindsight
  • finding trial counsel “could not have been deficient by his failure to anticipate the subsequent rulings of the United States Supreme Court” regarding jury selection and jury instruction issues that were not proscribed at the time of trial
  • \A petition for post- conviction relief may not be used as a substitute for a direct appeal.\
  • failure of counsel to warn client of such collateral consequences, absent actively providing misadvice, does not fall below the range of competence demanded of attorneys in criminal cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Wade, Birch, Duncan

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Cites

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