Nixon v. Singletary

How courts have described this case

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• stating \the dividing line between a sound defense strategy and ineffective assistance of counsel is whether or not the client has given his or her consent to such a strategy\
• stating “the dividing line between a sound defense strategy and ineffective assistance of counsel is whether or not the client has given his or her consent to such a strategy”
• an attorney's statement amounted to the functional equivalent of a guilty plea because it removed the strict burden on the State to prove the accused's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt
• an attorney's statement amounted to the functional equivalent of a guilty plea because it removed the strict burden on the State to prove the accused's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt
• \We emphasize that the Strickland standard normally applies to ineffective assistance of counsel claims.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).