Ex Parte Chandler

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “[i]gnorance of well-defined general laws, statutes and legal propositions is not excusable and such ignorance may lead to a finding of constitutionally deficient assistance of counsel”
• recognizing that “[i]gnorance of well-defined general laws, statutes and legal propositions is not excusable and such ignorance may lead to a finding of constitutionally deficient assistance of counsel”
• recognizing that a “reasonably competent counsel need not perform a useless or futile act”
• recognizing that A [i]gnorance of well‑defined general laws, statutes and legal propositions is not excusable and such ignorance may lead to a finding of constitutionally deficient assistance of counsel @
• recognizing that reasonably competent counsel need not perform a useless or futile act
• explaining that “legal advice which only later proves to be incorrect does not normally fall below the objective standard of 12 reasonableness”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).