Marvin Martin v. James H. Rose William Leech

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that defense counsel’s decision to “abandon all attempts to defend his client at trial” was a “bizarre and irresponsible stratagem” that amounted to constitutional error
• concluding that defense counsel’s decision to “abandon all attempts to defend his client at trial” was a “bizarre and irresponsible stratagem” that amounted to constitutional error
• finding Cronic prejudice where instead of “participating in the trial to hold the government to its burden of proof, [petitioner’s] trial counsel stood mute, offering the jury virtually no option but to convict him”
• counsel refused to participate in trial
• counsel refused to participate in trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).