People v. Nickson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defense counsel was not ineffective by failing to request a lesser-included-offense instruction because “[t]he decision to proceed with an all or nothing defense is a legitimate trial strategy”
• holding that defense counsel was not ineffective in failing to request an instruction of a lesser-included instruction because “[t]he decision to proceed with an all or nothing defense is a legitimate trial strategy”
• “The decision to proceed with an all or nothing defense is a legitimate trial strategy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).