People v. Cloyd

How courts have described this case

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• stating that in reviewing a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, a court must consider defense counsel’s performance as a whole and not merely focus upon isolated incidents of conduct
• stating, “The fact that [the victim] successfully avoided being shot does not make the evidence closer on the question of defendant’s specific intent to kill.”
• stating, “The fact that [the victim] successfully avoided being shot does not make the evidence closer on the question of defendant’s specific intent to kill.”
• evidence of the defendant’s intent to kill was not closely balanced but “blatantly clear” where, although the defendant testified he did not intend to kill the victim, the witnesses testified that the defendant held a gun against the victim’s head and fired four times at close range

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