Ardolino v. People

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[s]trategic choices made after thorough investigation of the law and facts relevant to plausible options are virtually unchallengeable”
• noting that Crim. P. 35(c) provides a criminal defendant with an adequate opportunity to develop the required record to establish ineffective assistance
• noting that when reviewing counsel’s performance, courts “evaluate particular acts and omissions from counsel’s perspective at the time”
• noting that sometimes, “the trial record reveals evidence of guilt so strong and so unlikely to have been adversely affected by counsel’s alleged deficiencies that denial of an ineffective-assistance claim would be justified without an evidentiary hearing”
• noting that a motion for postconviction relief under Crim. P. 35(c
• “[D]efendants have regularly been discouraged from attempting to litigate their counsels’ effectiveness on direct appeal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).