Mintun v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding winnowing out weaker arguments on appeal and focusing on those more likely to prevail, is hallmark of effective appellate advocacy
• holding it possible to bring ineffective assistance of appellate counsel for failure to raise particular claim in post-conviction proceeding
• holding it is not deficient performance to decline to raise nonfrivolous issues on appeal
• “[A] trial attorney’s failure to object to inadmissible evidence or other potential errors may be done for legitimate strategic or tactical purposes.”
• “[T]he process of winnowing out weaker arguments on appeal and focusing on those more likely to prevail, far from being the evidence of incompetence, is the hallmark of effective appellate advocacy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).