Meyer v. Branker

How courts have described this case

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• holding that counsel’s performance was reasonable when he chose not to introduce mental health evidence for strategic reasons after a thorough investigation
• holding that counsel's performance was reasonable when he chose not to introduce mental health evidence for strategic reasons after a thorough investigation
• noting that defendant Meyer “was obsessed with Dungeons and Dragons,” and that “this obsession caused ‘[him] to retreat into a fantasy world of Ninja warriors’ ”
• holding “that the Constitution does not mandate admission of a co-perpetrator’s sentence”
• holding to establish prejudice in the context of a guilty plea, a petitioner must show that “‘there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s errors, [the defendant] would not have pleaded guilty and would have insisted on going to trial’”
• referring to “[t]he majority’s preferred strategy, concocted with the benefit of hindsight”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).