Commonwealth v. Goodson

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that defense counsel’s “duty to investigate . . . was dependent on the information he received regarding the potential alibi witnesses”
• using similar factors to make credibility determination in § 2255 proceeding (citing United States v. Ramirez-Chilel, 289 F.3d 744, 750 (11th Cir. 2002))
• “[I]t was not unreasonable for [counsel] to conclude pursuit of a potential alibi defense would likely be fruitless[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).