Manett v. Simpson

How courts have described this case

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

• ‘Only when counsel’s strategy was so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have made it may we hold such performance as deficient.”
• “Only when counsel’s strategy was so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have made it may we hold such performance as deficient.”
• “[I]ssues adverted to in a perfunctory manner, unaccompanied by some effort at developed argumentation, are deemed waived.” (quoting United States v. Zannino, 895 F.2d 1, 17 (1st Cir. 1990))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).