Owen v. Secretary for the Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “failing to raise or adequately pursue [meritless issues on appeal] cannot constitute ineffective assistance of counsel”
• recognizing that “failing to raise or adequately pursue [meritless issues on appeal] cannot constitute ineffective assistance of counsel”
• holding that 50 if issues are without merit, “any deficiencies of [appellate] counsel in failing to raise or adequately pursue them cannot constitute ineffective assistance of counsel”
• holding that 50 if issues are without merit, “any deficiencies of [appellate] counsel in failing to raise or adequately pursue them cannot constitute ineffective assistance of counsel”
• holding that because “the underlying substantive claims on those issues lack merit . . . any deficiencies of counsel in failing to raise or adequately pursue them cannot constitute ineffective assistance of counsel”
• “failing to raise or adequately pursue [meritless issues on appeal] cannot constitute ineffective assistance of counsel”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).