Egrini v. County of Suffolk

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a second-in-time petition is not second or successive as to an undisturbed conviction because a new sentence creates a new judgment which has not yet been challenged”
• explaining that “both a conviction and sentence are necessary to authorize a prisoner’s confinement” and create a judgment for the purposes of a § 2254 petition
• finding decisions not to call certain witnesses for fear they may hurt the defendant are “[i]nformed, ‘strategic choices’” that “‘are virtually unchallengeable’ [under Strickland.]” (quoting Strickland, 466 U.S. at 690)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).