Forrest Gustave v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• “Considering that the same judge denied an identical motion to suppress at the first trial, we do not believe petitioner’s case was prejudiced by his attorney’s failure to make [a similar motion to suppress]” at a second trial
• “[T]he decision whether to subpoena certain witnesses rests upon the sound professional judgment of the trial lawyer.”
• “There is no requirement that an attorney appeal issues that are clearly untenable.”
• “Mere criticism of a tactic or strategy is not in itself 10 sufficient to support a charge of inadequate representation.”
• “Mere criticism of a tactic or strategy is not in itself sufficient 19 to support a charge of inadequate representation.”
• “Mere criticism of a tactic or strategy is not in itself 24 sufficient to support a charge of inadequate representation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).