Alejandro Ruvalcaba v. Nedra Chandler, Warden

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “we generally decline to supplement the record on appeal with materials that were not before the district court”
• “[W]e generally decline to supplement the record on appeal with materials that were not before the district court.”
• “[A] particular decision not to investigate must be directly assessed for reasonableness in all the circumstances, applying a heavy measure of deference to counsel’s judgments.”
• although defendant had no prior experience with the criminal justice system, he was a “ ‘streetwise’ ” gang member, which reduced the importance of his lack of such experience and indicated the capacity to appreciate his rights
• supplementing the record on appeal for a habeas petition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).