Andre Jones v. Thomas F. Page, Warden, Menard Correctional Center, and James Ryan, Attorney General of the State of Illinois

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• noting that although the basic right to counsel might have qualified for the second exception not all subsequent refinements of the right would do so
• noting that a judge “has an obligation to raise legal issues that the parties have - 14 - overlooked or neglected”
• noting that once a judge raises an issue that the parties did not argue, it is required to allow the parties to be heard on the issue.[
• holding that “while a judge should never engage in advocacy from the bench, he or she has an obligation to raise legal issues that the parties have over- looked or neglected. After all, the judge is on the bench in the first place (we trust
• noting that failure to introduce evidence of petitioner’s long history of substance abuse “was a reasonable tactical choice because such evidence was a ‘double-edged sword,’ that is, it could easily have been considered either aggravating or mitigating evidence”
• failure to introduce evidence of petitioner’s abuse problems was a reasonable strategic choice because such evidence was a “double-edged sword”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).