Horace Warner, Jr. v. J. Paul Ford, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• noting that defense counsel’s silence can be strategic in particular circumstances
• “Whether [silence as a] strategy is so defective as to negate the need for a showing of prejudice to establish ineffective assistance of counsel must be judged on a case-by-case basis.”
• “Silence can constitute trial strategy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).