Franklin Cuevas v. Robert Henderson, Superintendent of Auburn Correctional Facility, and Robert Abrams

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that because “[t]he prosecutor’s summation was appropriate . . . defense counsel’s failure to object does not support a conclusion that his performance was not reasonably competent”
• denying ineffective assistance claim based on counsel’s questioning that opened the door to damaging evidence
• affirming denial of habeas petitioner’s argument that counsel was ineffective for opening the door to damaging testimony that “hurt rather than helped [petitioner’s] case” where the “line of questioning was a matter of strategy”
• questioning by defense counsel “opened the door” to damaging evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).