Malone v. Clarke

How courts have described this case

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• finding no prejudice in the ineffective assistance context, despite lack of physical evidence where victim in a sexual assault case gave a descriptive account of the abuse
• counsel not ineffective where the “potential impeachment value of [a witness’s testimony] would not have significantly undermined [the testifying victim’s] credibility”
• “[I]f it is easier to dispose ,of an ineffectiveness claim on the ground of lack of sufficient prejudice, which we expect will often be so, that course should be followed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).