Kelly Renee Gissendaner v. Kathy Seaboldt, Warden, Metro State Prison

How courts have described this case

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

• stating “[d]ouble deference is doubly difficult for a petitioner to overcome, and it will be a rare case in which an ineffective assistance of counsel claim that was denied on the merits in state court is found to merit relief in a federal habeas proceeding.”
• “A willingness to accept [a counteroffer] more favorable than what is offered does not indicate a willingness to accept what is offered.”
• “[B]ecause Strickland’s standard for deficient performance is an objective one, trial counsel’s hindsight assessment of the adequacy of his penalty phase investigation is entitled to little, if any, weight.”
• “[B]ecause Strickland’s standard for deficient performance is an objective one, trial counsel’s hindsight assessment of the adequacy of his penalty phase investigation is entitled to little, if any, weight.”
• “The state habeas court’s finding of no deficient performance was also reasonable with respect to trial counsel’s mental health investigation, which included obtaining [the petitioner’s] mental health records and consulting with [an expert].”
• “[T]here comes a point . . . at which evidence from more distant relatives can reasonably be ex- pected to be only cumulative, and the search for it distractive of more important duties.” (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).