Cornist D. Johnson v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Adc

How courts have described this case

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

• “This circuit has repeatedly warned against second-guessing a lawyer’s trial strategy in evaluating claims of ineffective assistance of counsel.”
• due to an attorney’s discretion to advise a client whether he should testify on his behalf, attorney’s advice not to testify due, in part, to prior convictions may “at worst be called bad trial strategy, not constitutionally deficient legal performance”
• due to an attorney’s discretion to advise a client whether he should testify on his behalf, attorney’s advice not to testify due, in part, to prior convictions may “at worst be called bad trial strategy, not constitutionally deficient legal performance”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).