People v. Uphaus

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the DOC makes critical decisions regarding a defendant’s status based on the information in the presentence investigation report
• noting that “many of the constitutional requirements applicable to criminal trials do not apply at sentencing” and that, “when considering a defendant’s sentence, a trial court may properly rely on information that would otherwise not be admissible under the rules of evidence”
• “[T]he test for ineffective assistance of appellate counsel is the same as that applicable to a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel.”
• “Defendant must overcome a strong presumption that counsel’s performance constituted sound trial strategy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).