Argencourt v. United States

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• holding defendant must overcome the presumption that the challenged action “might be considered sound trial strategy”
• a petitioner seeking to vacate his sentence based on the ineffective assistance of counsel bears a very heavy burden
• where no single trial error in isolation is sufficiently prejudicial 18 to warrant habeas relief, “the cumulative effect of multiple errors may still prejudice a 19 defendant”
• “In determining whether trial counsel’s performance fell below the relevant objective benchmark, ‘judicial scrutiny of counsel’s performance must be highly deferential,’ and ‘every effort [should] be made to eliminate the distorting effects of hindsight.’ ”
• guoting Strickland, 466 U.S. at 689

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).