Chant Engineering Co. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the record may reveal that counsel did not request a certain instruction, but does not reveal why he did not request the instruction and thus a court of appeals would have to guess as to why trial counsel did not make the request
• \[f]ailure to request instructions on lesser-included offenses is a matter of trial strategy and does not establish ineffective assistance of counsel\
• “Failure to request instructions on lesser-included offenses is a matter of trial strategy and does not establish ineffective assistance of counsel.”
• “Failure to request instructions on lesser-included offenses is a matter of trial strategy and does not establish ineffective assistance of counsel”
• “Failure to request instructions on lesser-included offenses is a matter of trial strategy and does not establish ineffective assistance of counsel.”
• “[f]ailure to request instructions on lesser- included offenses is a matter of trial strategy and does not establish ineffective assistance of counsel”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).