Charles Diggs v. David Owens, Superintendent and John Daughn, Warden

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that procedural rules set forth in Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act were distinct from the rights the IADA was designed to protect
• concluding appellate counsel was not ineffective for failing to raise non-meritorious issues on appeal
• in a first-degree murder and kidnapping case, government interest prevailed where excluded testimony was available from another source
• “In general[,] a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right of compulsory process gives way when a witness he has subpoenaed invokes his Fifth Amendment privilege.”
• “An attorney is presumed to possess skill and knowledge in sufficient degree to preserve the reliability of the adversarial process and afford his client the benefit of a fair trial.”
• “An attorney is presumed to possess skill and knowledge in sufficient degree to preserve the reliability of the adversarial process and afford his client the benefit of a fair trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).