Alex Jordan Carruth v. the State of Texas

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• noting that petitioner maintained his “no-memory claim” for the remainder of the interrogation with the officer who made allegedly coercive statements
• explaining that when determining the reasonableness of an attorney’s conduct, “statements from other attorneys are not dispositive; indeed, they have little weight in our analysis.”
• “In evaluating the reasonableness of a defense attorney’s investigation, we weigh heavily the information provided by the defendant.”
• “In evaluating the reasonableness of a defense attorney’s investigation, we weigh heavily the information provided by the defendant.”
• “In evaluating the reasonableness of a defense attorney’s investigation, we weigh heavily the information provided by the defendant.”
• “We have also emphasized the importance of a mentally competent client’s instructions in our analysis of defense counsel’s investigative performance under the Sixth Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).