Alvernaz v. Ratelle

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the ineffective attorney’s “statements are entitled to heightened credibility because the very statements that are beneficial to [Alvernaz] are harmful to [the attorney’s] own professional reputation.”
• granting habeas relief to petitioner (the namesake of In re Alvernaz) where the “minimum difference in risk was almost tenfold” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).