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Supreme Court of Colorado· 4/15/1996

People v. Rodriguez

Citations

  • 914 P.2d 230
  • 1996 WL 107221

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the failure to specifically reassert on appeal postconviction claims resolved by the district court is a conscious relinquishment of those claims
  • concluding that a defendant’s failure to reassert on appeal all of the claims on which the postconviction court ruled constitutes a conscious relinquishment of those claims
  • recognizing that a “fair assessment of counsel’s performance requires that every effort be made to eliminate the distorting effects of hindsight, to reconstruct the circumstances of counsel’s challenged conduct, and to evaluate the conduct from counsel’s perspective at the time”
  • recognizing that a “fair assessment of counsel’s performance requires that every effort be made to eliminate the distorting effects of hindsight, to reconstruct the circumstances of counsel’s challenged conduct, and to evaluate the conduct from counsel’s perspective at the time”
  • noting that a defendant may not use a brief on appeal to fortify claims inadequately raised or supported in a Crim. P. 35(c) motion
  • analyzing the denial of effective assistance of counsel under the state and federal constitutions using federal caselaw

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Judges: Erickson, Scott, Kirshbaum, Lohr

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Cites

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