Tennessee Supreme Court· 10/7/2002

Nichols v. State

Citations

90 S.W.3d 576
2002 Tenn. LEXIS 419
2002 WL 31235413

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observing that in order to establish ineffective assistance of counsel in a claim involving a guilty plea, a petitioner must establish that but for the deficiency, he would have proceeded to trial rather than entering the guilty plea
discussing a petitioner’s challenge to a sentence of death based upon counsel’s failure to present mitigating evidence at trial
petitioner’s sister unwilling witness and told counsel that she would not talk about any abuse in the family
“[I]t is entirely reasonable for counsel’s actions to be influenced by a defendant’s own statements.”
petitioner mounted extensive, but unsuccessful, campaign to prove his confessions should have been challenged by counsel as false because they contained inaccuracies and omissions and because there was evidence of innocence
counsel not faulted for failing to introduce cumulative evidence

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Judges: Justice E. Riley Anderson

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