Commonwealth v. Richenburg

How courts have described this case

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• failure to request continuance undermines claim that counsel would have taken different course on cross-examination had he received inculpatory information earlier
• argument that victim was tied to a column not based in evidence but not prejudicial where evidence indicated she had been tied up, but not to column
• failure to perform blood typing analysis permissible ground on which to build defense but does not constitute destruction of potentially exculpatory evidence
• “[T]he cost of running a law practice is significantly less when the expenses are divided among a number of attorneys. The economic benefits of associations can be particularly attractive to young lawyers who are attempting to build a practice with limited financial resources”
• failure to perform blood-typing analysis permissible ground on which to build defense, but does not constitute suppression of evidence in violation of due process within doctrine of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S. Ct. 1194,10 L. Ed. 2d 215 [1963]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).