Flanders v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, in complex fraud case, “it should have been obvious to a competent lawyer that the assistance of an accountant [was] necessary.”
• holding that “the totality of counsel’s errors and omissions” may support a finding of unfairness and prejudice
• holding that the failure to interview or to attempt to interview key prosecution witnesses constitutes deficient performance
• stating when pretrial investigation and preparation is inadequate, the record is necessarily incomplete as to extent of prejudice
• stating that some “defense away from that location in a strategies may be so ill-chosen that they deserted area, opened the m a y r e n d e r c o u n s e l ’ s o v e r al l trunk and [the victim] was representation constitutionally deficient”
• prosecutor emphasized in his closing argument that no witnesses corroborated defendant’s version of events

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).