Dannhaus v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding where the evidence of the appellant’s guilt was strong, trial counsel’s action in not requesting instructions on several defenses, including voluntariness of conduct, and strategy in focusing on lack of intent for greater offense of murder was not objectively unreasonable
• “In some cases, it may be a more effective strategy to focus on a relatively narrow defense, rather than to use a ‘shotgun’ approach by arguing every defense available.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).