Forget v. State

How courts have described this case

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• stating that claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel are not cognizable on direct appeal unless the error is apparent on the face of the record
• stating that trial counsel’s failure to request a jury instruction requiring the state to establish the defendant’s knowledge of the presence of cocaine residue in a pipe found on his person constituted ineffective assistance of counsel
• finding ineffective assistance of counsel on direct appeal when trial counsel failed to request jury instruction regarding the mens rea element of the crime charged

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).