Diaz v. Secretary for the 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.

• recognizing that after enactment of the AEDPA, review of the state courts’ decision is limited
• concluding that a lawyer “is not ineffective for failure to raise a meritless argument.”
• holding counsel cannot be ineffective for failing to raise a meritless argument
• holding counsel cannot be ineffective for failing to raise a meritless argument
• holding counsel cannot be ineffective for failing to raise a meritless argument
• holding counsel cannot be ineffective for failing to raise a meritless argument

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).