Nichol v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that where an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim stems from an alleged conflict of interest, “[w]e must decide if ... there was a conflict of interest and, if so, whether it raised a substantial possibility of prejudice to petitioner.”
• noting complaints about the failure to call witnesses should be accompanied by a showing their testimony would have been beneficial
• noting “complaints about failure to call witnesses should be accompanied by a showing their testimony would have been beneficial”
• noting “complaints about failure to call witnesses should be accompanied by a showing their testimony would have been beneficial”
• finding no conflict of interest where defense counsel’s previous representation of the State’s “principal witness” on “a wholly unrelated matter d[id] not raise even a remote possibility of conflict”
• “Ordinarily complaints about failure to call witnesses should be accompanied by a showing their testimony would have been beneficial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).