Frederick W. McKee Petitioner-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. United States of America, Respondent-Appellant-Cross-Appellee

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] court may not use hindsight to second-guess counsel’s tactical choices.” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
• “Actions or omissions by counsel that might be considered sound trial strategy do not constitute ineffective assistance, and a court may not use hindsight to second-guess counsel’s tactical choices.” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “A petitioner may rebut the suggestion that the challenged conduct reflected merely a [tactical] choice . . . by showing that counsel omitted significant and obvious issues while pursuing issues that were clearly and significantly weaker.”
• “A petitioner may rebut the suggestion that the challenged conduct reflected merely a [tactical] choice . . . by showing that counsel omitted significant and obvious issues while pursuing issues that were clearly and significantly weaker.”
• “[A] court may not use hindsight to second-guess counsel’s tactical choices.”
• remanding to provide allegedly ineffective attorney an opportunity be heard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).