Long Island Rail Road v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• the presumption of attorney competence could be rebutted \when trial counsel testifies credibly at an evidentiary hearing that his choice was not strategic\
• the presumption of attorney competence could be rebutted “when trial counsel testifies credibly at an evidentiary hearing that his choice was not strategic”
• “a strategy chosen after full investigation is entitled to almost automatic approval by the courts, a strategy chosen after partial investigation must be scrutinized more closely”
• counsel must conduct substantial investigation into the one plausible line of defense in the case
• when counsel fails to conduct a substantial investigation into any of his client’s plausible lines of defense, the attorney has failed to render effective assistance of counsel
• “It is a firmly established rule in our jurisprudence that a judge may not be asked to testify about his mental processes in reaching a judicial decision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).