David Lee Fisher v. Ronald J. Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that habeas courts can consider the cumulative effect of multiple constitutional errors committed at trial when determining harmlessness
• rejecting petitioner’s argument “that the cumulative effect of his trial counsel’s individual actions deprived him of a fair trial”
• rejecting petitioner's argument \that the cumulative effect of his trial counsel's individual actions deprived him of a fair trial\
• writing that “[h]aving just determined that none of counsel’s actions could be considered constitutional error . . . it would be odd, to say the least, to conclude that those same actions, when considered collectively deprived [the defendant] of a fair trial”
• “Having just determined that none of counsel’s actions could be considered constitutional error ... it would be odd ... to conclude that those same actions, when considered collectively, deprived [the defendant] of a fair trial.”
• “[I]t has long been the practice of this Court individually to assess claims under [Strickland].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).