Bird Construction Corp. v. Autoridad De Energia Electrica

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that counsel did not commit legal error when the failure to procure an expert was not based on a mistake of state law
• noting the latitude we give counsel in how they secure expert witnesses with limited resources
• using the Strickland test to analyze a petitioner’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim
• “Counsel, of course, must make reasonable professional efforts to expose weaknesses in eyewitness identifications . . . [, but] may use ‘other means’ such as cross-examination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).