Holly v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• applying the two-pronged test for ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims announced in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687-96, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984)
• applying the two-pronged test announced in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687-96, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984)
• applying the two-pronged test announced in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687-96, 104 S. Ct. 2052, 80 L. Ed. 2d 674 (1984)
• counsel was deficient for failing to get mental expert for mitigation and only presenting one witness, defendant’s mother, but defendant did not show this prejudiced him
• “This Court looks at the totality of circumstances to determine whether counsel’s efforts were both deficient and prejudicial.” (citing Carney v. State, 525 So. 2d 776, 780 (Miss. 1988); Read, 430 So. 2d at 839)
• “This Court looks at the totality of circumstances to determine whether counsel’s efforts were both deficient and prejudicial.” (citing Carney v. State, 525 So. 2d 776, 780 (Miss. 1988); Read [v. State], 430 So. 2d [832, 839 (Miss. 1983)])

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).