Cuvas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• counsel’s failure to seek a Jackson-Denno hearing not ineffective where defendant failed to establish that her statement was not freely and voluntarily given
• “[T]he attorney’s failure must be complete and must occur throughout the proceeding and not merely at specific points.” (punctuation omitted)
• “When trial counsel’s failure to file a motion to suppress is the basis for a claim of ineffective assistance, the defendant must make a strong showing that the damaging evidence would have been suppressed had counsel made the motion.”
• counsel’s failure to file meritless motion is not ineffective assistance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).