Pettes v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding counsel did not breach a duty and was not ineffective in making strategic decision to not assert defense of diminished capacity where the doctor’s report was equivocal
• “In view of the equivocal nature of the doctor’s reports supporting the defense of diminished capacity, . . . we do not believe [the decision declining to raise that defense] was beyond the range of normal competency.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).