· 5/9/1994
Blanche Elizabeth Dyer v. United States
Citations
- 23 F.3d 1424
- 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 10193
- 1994 WL 171333
How courts have described this case
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- holding that a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel fails when premised on counsel’s alleged failure to pursue meritless argument
- stating that claims regarding time credits concern the execution of a sentence and must be brought under § 2241 in the district of confinement
- \Dyer's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel fail because we have just rejected as meritless the claim Dyer asserts counsel should have pursued.\
- no ineffective assistance if claim defendant alleges counsel should have pursued is meritless
- counsel&s failure to raise meritless issue is not ineffective assistance
- counsel not ineffective for failing to raise meritless challenge
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Judges: Memillian, Magill, Beam
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