James Armando Card v. Richard L. Dugger

How courts have described this case

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• holding counsel has no duty and cannot be considered ineffective for failing to raise a meritless claim
• stating counsel is not required to shop for a psychiatrist who will testify in a particular way
• finding no ineffectiveness where “none of the evidence that petitioner claims could have been introduced directly contradicts or undermines the testimony of’ the State’s witness
• finding no ineffectiveness where “none of the evidence that petitioner claims could have been introduced directly contradicts or undermines the testimony of” the State’s witness
• finding no ineffectiveness where “none of the evidence that petitioner claims could have been introduced directly contradicts or undermines the testimony of’ the State’s witness
• court saying the Commonwealth can “come in and show well, [Turner] was a pretty bad guy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).