Bynum v. Lemmon

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the district court’s, post-conviction findings showed that the defendant had not been prejudiced from defense counsel’s failure to file a motion to suppress
• holding that trial counsel’s assistance was ineffective when decision to keep client off the witness stand was based on a misunderstanding of procedural law
• “Under Strickland, a defendant must prove that there is a reasonable probability that, but for his lawyer’s mistakes, the result of the proceedings would have been different”
• “Under Strickland, a defendant must prove that there is a reasonable probability that, but for his lawyer’s mistakes, the result of the proceedings would have been different”
• inmate must “show that, had he testified, there was both a reasonable probability that he would have prevailed on the motion to suppress and a reasonable probability that, if his confessions were suppressed, he would have been acquitted”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).