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Supreme Court· 10/3/1988

Citizens Bank v. McLaughlin

Citations

  • 488 U.S. 829
  • 109 S. Ct. 82
  • 10 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 1168
  • 57 U.S.L.W. 3231
  • 102 L. Ed. 2d 59
  • 1988 U.S. LEXIS 3790

How courts have described this case

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  • detaining a child in violation of “any terms of a valid court order” and “removing the child from the jurisdiction of the court” were express statutory elements of the offense
  • counsel’s mental illness and subsequent replacement during trial did not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel when defendant did not show how counsel’s action prejudiced him
  • attorney's mental illness was not grounds for per se rule of prejudice
  • ineffective for counsel to rely upon defendant’s representation that defendant thought the information in the rap sheet accurate where counsel did not explain to the defendant “the critical distinctions between arrest and conviction and between felony and misdemeanor”
  • “Rather than attempt to identify mental illnesses that would presumptively disable an attorney from conducting a criminal defense we believe it is more prudent to evaluate the attorney’s actual conduct of a trial in light of allegations of mental incompetence.”

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