James Patrasso v. Keith O. Nelson

How courts have described this case

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

• remanding for grant of a habeas petition without harmless-error analysis after finding attorney’s performance at defendant’s sentencing hearing was “so lacking that it invites application of Cronic rather than Strickland”
• “Res judicata, however, is not a bar to consideration of claims in a federal habeas action. ‘[F]ederal review is precluded only by procedural forfeitures, not by res judicata concerns.’” (alteration in original) (citations omitted)
• counsel’s performance at sentencing was “practically non-existent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).