Bob Edward Lancaster v. Lanson Newsome

How courts have described this case

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• holding counsel was not ineffective for informed tactical decision not to make what he believed was a meritless motion challenging juror selection procedures where such a motion has never been sustained because such a motion would not have succeeded
• counsel not ineffective in failing to object to jury composition where he believed the method of selection was constitutional
• noting a criminal defendant is “not entitled to error-free representation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).