Jimmy Lee Horton v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting “the notion that a ‘strategic’ decision can be reasonable when the attorney has failed to investigate his options and make a reasonable choice between them”
• “[S]o called ‘strategic’ decisions that are based on a 17 mistaken understanding of the law . . . are entitled to less deference.”
• “Plurality opinions are only persuasive authority; they are not binding on this Court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).