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· 7/3/2007

Bryan F. Jennings v. James McDonough

Citations

  • 490 F.3d 1230
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 15828
  • 2007 WL 1892061

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that none of the Supreme Court decisions regarding this issue “squarely addresses the issue of federal district courts conducting harmless error review in place of state courts”
  • noting that none of the Supreme Court decisions regarding this issue \squarely addresses the issue of federal district courts conducting harmless error review in place of state courts\
  • explaining that “[t]he Strickland standard of objective reasonableness does not depend on the subjective intentions of the attorney, judgments made in hindsight, or an attorney’s admission of deficient performance”
  • explaining that “[t]he Strickland standard of objective reasonableness does not depend on the subjective intentions of the attorney, judgments made in hindsight, or an attorney’s admission of deficient performance”
  • “[t]he prejudice prong of Strickland incorporates the same standard used for assessing the materiality of evidence under Brady”
  • “The Strickland standard of objective reasonableness does not depend on the subjective intentions of the attorney, judgments made in hindsight, or an attorney’s admission of deficient performance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Tjoflat, Anderson, Marcus

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