Lockheart v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defense counsel's failure to file a meritless motion to suppress evidence did not amount to ineffective assistance
• holding trial counsel made a strategic decision not to call a specific witness because she felt that the witness “may have lacked credibility”
• where motion to suppress evidence would have been meritless, counsel’s failure to file such a motion did not amount to ineffective assistance
• defense counsel’s failure to file a meritless motion to suppress evidence did not amount to ineffective assistance
• trial counsel made a strategic decision not to call a specific witness because she felt that the witness “may have lacked credibility”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).