Charles C. Greiner v. Ronald Wells

How courts have described this case

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• stating that double-hearsay in an affidavit could not be used to demonstrate ineffective assistance of counsel in habeas proceedings
• finding that Louisiana State University is an arm of the state and entitled to sovereign immunity
• noting that because petitioner’s ineffective assistance claim fails, “[w]e need not consider 18 the propriety of the [district court’s] other conclusions – including [its] application of the 19 heightened AEDPA deference of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)”
• explaining that defense counsel’s duty to investigate does not “compel defense counsel to investigate comprehensively every lead or possible defense . . . or to scour the globe on the off-chance something will turn up” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
• collecting cases finding deficient performance where counsel failed to investigate the case, committed legal error, misunderstood the case, lacked common sense, or sought to avoid extra work
• court must “look for legitimate justifications for [counsel’s] conduct, including justifications transparent on the record and justifications offered by counsel”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).