James Adams v. Louie L. Wainwright

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting similar challenge to Florida statute on the basis of Proffitt v. Florida, 428 U. S. 242 (1976)
• “[A] strategic deci- sion to pursue less than all plausible lines of defense will rarely, if ever, be deemed ineffective if counsel first adequately investigated the rejected alternatives.”
• “Even if in retrospect the strategy appears to have been wrong, the decision will be held ineffective only if it was so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen it.”
• “Even if in retrospect the strategy appears to have been wrong, the decision will be held ineffective only if it was so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen it.”
• “Even if in retrospect the strategy appears to have been wrong, the decision will be held ineffective only if it was so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen it.”
• “Even if in retrospect the strategy appears to have been wrong, the decision will be held ineffective only if it was so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).