Engle v. Dugger

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that there was no ineffectiveness where defense counsel “adopted a tactical approach not to question the medical examiner’s conclusions in order not to inflame the jury”
• a court will not label counsel ineffective for failing to raise meritless claims

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