Eric Clark v. James Arnold

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• explaining that Strickland does “not expect counsel to be prescient about the direction the law will take”
• counsel was not ineffective for failing to offer expert testimony regarding intent where state law arguably barred such evidence when offered to negate mens rea

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).