People v. Leppanen

How courts have described this case

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

• denying ineffective assistance claim in jury override case despite noting that “prejudice ‘is more easily shown’” in such cases
• finding no prejudice given “the overwhelming power of the aggravating evidence” when compared to the totality of the mitigation evidence
• “[M]uch (although not all) of the ‘new’ testimony introduced at the post-conviction hearing would simply have am- plified the themes already raised at trial and incorporated into the sentencing judge’s decision to override the jury.”
• declining to address deficient performance where prejudice was not proven

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).