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Indiana Supreme Court· 5/25/1999

Conner v. State

Citations

  • 711 N.E.2d 1238
  • 1999 Ind. LEXIS 344
  • 1999 WL 330395

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  • determining that defense counsel could have reasonably decided to seek acquittal on the murder charge rather than arguing for the lesser offense of voluntary manslaughter
  • holding that the defendant “was not unaware” of the exculpatory evidence and that the State cannot “be found to have suppressed material information if that information was available to a defendant through the exercise of reasonable diligence”
  • observing that “theoretical imperfections alone will not satisfy the extremely heavy Cronic burden and force us to find a Cronic exception to the Strickland analysis”
  • observing that mental-health professionals “disagree widely and frequently on what constitutes mental illness [and] on the appropriate diagnosis to be attached to a given behavior and symptoms”
  • explaining that when assessing appellate ineffectiveness claims based on a waiver of issues, reviewing courts should be particularly deferential to counsel’s strategic decision to exclude certain issues in favor of others and that such ineffectiveness claims are “very rarely found”
  • rejecting on the merits Conner's related claim of substandard performance by his lawyers

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Judges: Dickson, Shepard, Sullivan, Selby, Boehm

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