Carter v. McQuade

How courts have described this case

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

• “There are countless ways to provide effective assistance in any given case. Even the best criminal defense attorneys would not defend a particular client in the same way.”
• no prejudice from failure to request mental health evaluation where psychologist who testified at the motion for new trial hearing could not give an opinion as to whether defendant was suffering from mental health issues at the time of the offense
• no prejudice where the defendant did not show what the result of any additional mental health examination would have been, and thus failed to establish prejudice by showing that the result of his trial would have been different if such a psychological examination was pursued
• no prejudice from failure to request mental health evaluation where psychologist who testified at the motion for new trial hearing could not give an opinion as to whether defendant was suffering from mental health issues at the time of the offense
• “There are countless ways to provide effective assistance in any given case. Even the best criminal defense attorneys would not 3 The family friend would not agree to speak with him prior to trial. 10 defend a particular client in the same way.”
• no prejudice where the defendant did not show what the result of any additional mental health examination would have been, and thus failed to establish prejudice by showing that the result of his trial would have been different if such a psychological examination was pursued

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).