Ex Parte Lilly

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that attorney must have firm command of facts of case as well as law to render reasonably effective assistance
• stating that attorney must have firm command of facts of case as well as law to render reasonably effective assistance
• noting that counsel “has a responsibility to seek out and interview potential witnesses and failure to do so is to be ineffective, if not incompetent, where the result is that any viable defense available to the accused is not advanced”
• counsel’s failure to investigate the facts of a case constitutes ineffectiveness if the result is that any viable defense was not advanced
• counsel's failure to investigate the facts of a case constitutes ineffectiveness if the result is that any viable defense available to the accused was not advanced
• “It is fundamental that an attorney must have a firm command of the facts of the case as well as the law before he can render reasonably effective assistance of counsel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).