J. D. Williams, Inc. v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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• \Washington has adopted the Strickland test to determine whether a defendant had constitutionally sufficient representation.\
• “Washington has adopted the Strickland test to determine whether a defendant had constitutionally sufficient representation.”
• rejecting argument that failure to propose an instruction to which defendant was entitled under the law constitutes per se ineffective assistance of counsel
• “Washington has adopted the Strickland test to determine whether a defendant had constitutionally sufficient representation.”
• considering evidence regarding the defendant’s ability to form the requisite mental state as evidence of diminished capacity even though trial counsel did not request a diminished capacity instruction
• rejecting argument that failure to propose an instruction to which defendant was entitled under the law constitutes per se ineffective assistance of counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).