Astler v. Harris

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that \[t]he effective assistance of counsel standard announced in Strickland is well established\ and that \it would be absurd to have the right to appointed counsel who is not required to be competent\
• “[W]e will not presume that our legislature has mandated some useless formality requiring the mere physical presence of counsel as opposed to effective and competent counsel”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).