David Eugene Johnston v. Harry K. Singletary, Jr. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that trial counsel may render ineffective assistance where she deprives “the court of critical information regarding its own 8 Case: 16-13336 Date Filed: 06/05/2018 Page: 9 of 13 potential duty” to hold a competency hearing
• finding no prejudice exists when counsel fails to timely object to conduct by prosecutor and court which did not violate Constitution or Supreme Court precedent
• counsel was not ineffective for failing to present additional witnesses whose testimony would have been cumulative
• “In practical terms, counsel’s ability to present certain types of evidence may be informed, if not sharply curtailed, by a client’s refusal to cooperate”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).