Coffman v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “the ultimate question is whether the attorney’s choice of issues was so ill-considered that it fails to demonstrate the minimal competence required of criminal law practitioners”
• “The normal rule under Alaska law . . . is that a defendant’s appellate attorney has the responsibility of deciding which issues to raise on appeal.”
• “The effect of adding weak arguments will be to dilute the force of the stronger ones.” (quoting State v. Williams, 352 N.W.2d 538, 544 (Neb. 1984))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Carlin
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2011-03-25· cited 35×
• Harvey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2012-09-14· cited 7×
• Lindeman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2011-01-07· cited 6×
• Marlon Mack v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2023-01-06· cited 6×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2008-06-06· cited 5×
• Steven Michael Hinshaw v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2022-08-05· cited 5×
• Wyatt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2017-02-17· cited 3×
• Mund v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2014-03-21· cited 3×
• Buxton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2015-06-19· cited 1×
• Loren J. Larson Jr. v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2023-04-07
• Winona M. Fletcher v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2023-05-12