Hogan v. O'Niel

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a conviction may be reversed on the ground of ineffective assistance of counsel only upon proof of an outcome-determinative deficiency in counsel’s performance
• holding that counsel’s “tactical decisions” do not “rise to the level of ineffective assistance”
• holding that an ineffective-assistance-0f-counsel claim requires proof of an outcome-determinative deficiency in counsel’s performance
• holding that counsel's “tactical decisions” do not “rise to the level of ineffective assistance”
• noting that it was not always necessary to engage in an analysis of counsel’s ineffective and the prejudicial impact of any of counsel’s errors
• warning that the purpose of an ineffectiveness claim is not to grade counsel's performance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).