Cornel Cooks v. Ron Ward, Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester Oklahoma

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• holding that Cronic did not apply because counsel “conducted limited cross-examination, made evidentiary objections, and gave a closing argument”
• recognizing, in regard to an ineffective-assistance claim raised in a capital habeas petition, \a need to apply ... closer scrutiny when reviewing attorney performance during the sentencing phase of a capital case\
• recognizing, in regard to an ineffective- assistance claim raised in a capital habeas petition, “a need to apply . . . closer scrutiny when reviewing attorney performance during the sentencing phase of a capital case”
• holding a court may address Strickland’s performance and prejudice prongs “in any order, but need not address both if [movant] fails to make a sufficient showing of one”
• stating that courts need not address both Strickland prongs if one is not met
• requiring court to consider strength of government's case and aggravating factors jury found to exist, as well as mitigating factors that might have been presented

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).