Jones v. City of Carlisle

How courts have described this case

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• finding that defense counsel’s failure to seek a continuance in order to locate a material witness was not trial strategy but instead constituted an “objectively unreasonable error”
• “Defense counsel’s failure to seek the continuance in order to locate a material witness did not constitute trial strategy but was instead an objectively unreasonable error.” (Emphasis added.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).