Commonwealth v. Saferian

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant did not sufficiently establish case of ineffective assistance
• new trial where counsel's deficient performance deprives defendant of otherwise available substantial ground of defense
• new trial where counsel’s deficient performance deprives defendant of otherwise available substantial ground of defense
• court may examine whether counsel’s conduct at trial deprived the defendant of an otherwise substantial defense
• first prong analyzes whether counsel’s behavior fell “measurably below that which might be expected from an ordinary fallible lawyer”
• “dependence on improvised cross-examination alone, even if it will surely be of virtuosic quality, is not to be recommended”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).