City of New Orleans v. Gottschalk

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a valid tactical reason for limited cross-examination is “[w]ider cross-examination of [the witness] may have merely solidified the position of the [government”
• holding that in an ineffective assistance claim, the first point of inquiry is “whether counsel had a reasonable trial strategy — one supported by the law and evidence”
• stating, “expert testimony, when injected by a party, often opens the door to experts in rebuttal”
• discussing direct appeal from conviction that raised ineffective assistance of counsel claims
• Appellant is not entitled to an evidentiary hearing to resolve his appellate claim of ineffective assistance of counsel because he “has not met the threshold burden to demonstrate that his trial lawyer’s performance was ineffective under the tests established by this Court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).