Barry Clifford v. M/v Islander, Barry Clifford v. M/v Islander

How courts have described this case

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• finding no ineffective assistance based on the failure to call 8 witnesses when the defendant failed to identify any witness his counsel should have called 9 who would have been helpful
• “[o]ral maritime contract .. .would be considered a ‘special contract’, creating a duty to assist and rendering Clifford’s services ‘non-voluntary’.”
• district court has power to control timing of attorney subpoenas in response to motions to quash
• ship neither grounded nor stranded

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).