Mendenhall v. Hopper

How courts have described this case

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• holding defendant’s plea counsel was ineffective when he failed to adequately inform and advise his client as to the advisability of utilizing an insanity defense when mental evaluation revealed probable issues with defendant and such defense was the only available defense
• decision to interpose insanity defense “resides in the trial judge’s discretion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).