Charles R. Chadwick v. Calvin E. Green, Superintendent, Wayne Correctional Institution, Odum, Georgia

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] decision to investigate some issues and not others or even a decision to conduct virtually no investigation is governed by Strickland and its progeny.”
• “Circumstances which would warrant a presumption of prejudice . . . are those where ‘the adversary process itself is [rendered] presumptively unreliable [by the circumstances].’”
• “Circumstances which would warrant a presumption of prejudice . . . are those where ‘the adversary process itself is [rendered] presumptively unreliable [by the circumstances].’”
• “Circumstances which would warrant a presumption of prejudice . . . are those where ‘the adversary process itself is [rendered] presumptively unreliable [by the circumstances].’”
• circumstances which would warrant a presumption of prejudice from counsel's ineffectiveness are those in which adversary process itself is rendered presumptively unreliable by the circumstances
• failure of counsel “to investigate and pursue all avenues of defense” is more appropriately analyzed under Strickland “rather than as a fundamental breakdown of the adversarial process such that prejudice is presumed under Cronic.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).