Jordan v. Macedo

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a party is bound by a concession to the district court notwithstanding a contrary position on appeal
• counsel ineffective in murder ease for failing to cross-examine state witnesses about their motivation for testifying
• counsel’s failure to cross-examine witnesses about their knowledge of reward money cannot be considered strategic where counsel did not investigate this avenue of impeachment
• “Such a happenstance does not constitute a basis for concluding that the court has applied the wrong standard.”
• “When it is clear . . . that the state court has not decided an issue, we review that question de novo.”
• con- cluding that trial counsel’s failure to investigate a reward offered to witnesses rendered her performance deficient and “cannot under any theory be deemed a sound trial strategy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).