Parisi v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “[u]nder Strickland, [a court] must consider the circumstances counsel faced at the time of the relevant conduct” (quotation marks and citation omitted)
• finding that a petitioner who waived his right to appeal cannot bring a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel based solely on “pre-plea events rather than the plea agreement process.”
• noting that reviewing courts should be “mindful of the diversity of the bar and the variety of approaches effective attorneys might employ when dealing with a particular set of facts”
• stating that an ineffective assistance claim requires a defendant to “(1) demonstrate that his counsel’s performance fell below an objective standard of reasonableness in light of prevailing professional 6 norms; and (2
• stating petitioner “would have this Court turn its gaze away from the plea process and toward the multitude of ways in which pre-plea events might reduce the strength of the defense.... We decline that invitation.”
• “by focusing on the advice [petitioner] received from [her] attorney, it connects the alleged ineffectiveness ... with the voluntariness of [her] plea.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).