Lichau v. Baldwin

How courts have described this case

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

• granting post-conviction relief for inadequate assistance of counsel based on the failure to investigate an alibi defense and its prejudicial effect
• rejecting state’s position that the petitioner was not prejudiced by his counsel’s failure to offer alibi evidence because the evidence “fail[ed] to prove anything with cer- tainty”
• “[E]ach decision to limit investigation of a particu- lar defense itself must be a reasonable exercise of profes- sional skill and judgment under the circumstances.”
• post-conviction court’s findings of historical fact are binding on appellate court if there is evidence in the record to support them
• post-conviction court’s findings of historical fact are binding on appellate court if there is evidence in the record to support them
• “[E]vidence presented at a post-conviction hearing—evidence that could have been presented at petitioner’s criminal trial” need not be “ ‘conclusive’ to be deemed to have a tendency to affect the result of a trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).