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Luke v. State

Citations

  • 465 N.W.2d 898
  • 1990 Iowa App. LEXIS 472
  • 1990 WL 255666

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting effective assistance does not require counsel “to raise every nonfrivolous issue urged by the client”
  • noting effective assistance does not require counsel “to raise every nonfrivolous issue urged by the client”
  • rejecting a claim of ineffective assistance based on counsel’s failure to investigate because the applicant did not show the witness would have provided exculpatory evidence
  • finding a petitioner’s failure-to-investigate claim meritless where the petitioner “d[id] not present evidence the witnesses would have, in fact, testified” to the exculpatory evidence counsel allegedly failed to develop

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Judges: Oxberger, Donielson, Hayden, Schlegel

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