Jessie Joseph Tafero v. Louie L. Wainwright

How courts have described this case

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• mere fact that the judge was once a highway patrolman did not mandate recusal or constitute a disqualification even where he had attended the funeral of the patrolman whom defendant had killed
• “[A] defendant’s deci- sion communicated to his counsel as to who he wants to leave out of the investigation, while not negating the duty to investigate, does limit the scope of the investigation.”
• “We find that trial counsel, on voir dire of the jury, adequately investigated the possibility of po- tential prejudice against [the defendant], and [counsel’s] decision not to seek a change of venue was a strategic decision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).