Jimmy Dill v. Richard F. Allen

How courts have described this case

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• holding that counsel was not deficient in failing to pursue an alternative line of defense in part because that defense would have been “unavailing”
• “[Constitutionally sufficient assistance of counsel does not require presenting an alternative — not to mention unavailing or inconsistent — theory of the case.”
• “[O]ur circuit maintains that constitutionally sufficient assistance of counsel does not require presenting an alternative — not to mention unavailing or inconsistent — theory of the case.”
• “In light of the reasonableness standard set forth by the Strickland Court, our circuit maintains that constitutionally sufficient assistance of counsel does not require presenting an alternative-not to mention unavailing or inconsistent-theory of the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).