Krummacher v. Gierloff

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that competent counsel can make “tactical choices that backfire, because, by their nature, trials often involve risk”
• explaining that court-appointed counsel “cannot always be ‘effective,’ but they must always be ‘adequate’ to the task”
• stating that “the constitution does not require counsel to make useless and futile gestures for the sake of form”
• determining that ‘‘[i]t is sufficient for the purposes of this case to examine the right to counsel as if the rights assured under each constitution are identical”
• clarifying that trial counsel are not required to “expend time and energy uselessly or for negligible potential benefit under the circumstances of the case”
• identifying as one of the “general propositions” of constitutional adequacy that counsel must investigate and prepare on the law in order to “represent the defendant in an informed manner”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).