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Supreme Court· 4/22/1996

Jordan v. United States

Citations

  • 517 U.S. 1157
  • 134 L. Ed. 2d 650

How courts have described this case

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  • where the federal court applied Strickland to address attorney conflicts outside the multiple or serial client context
  • “As long as a sentence carries a mandatory special assessment, it is a separate punishment for double jeopardy purposes.”
  • the Sullivan “test sets a lower threshold for reversal of a criminal conviction than does Strickland” and applies only to Sixth Amendment claims involving multiple representation

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