Patricia Ann Carter v. Kathleen Holt, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the defendant was not denied effective assistance of counsel although defense counsel advised the defendant to waive a jury trial in part on the basis of his belief that \the likely punishment would be less in a bench trial\
• stating that an ineffectiveness claim based on counsel's decision to waive a jury is viable only if the choice was \so unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen it\
• stating that an ineffectiveness claim based on counsel’s decision to waive a jury is viable only if the choice was “so unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen it”
• stating that an ineffectiveness claim based on counsel’s decision to waive a jury is viable only if the choice was “so unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen it”
• “Here, defense counsel’s overall judgment [recommending a jury trial waiver] was logical in design to further his client’s interest” and was not “outside the wide range of competent assistance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).