R. Wayne Johnson v. Robert Ramirez

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “trial counsel … may rely on the truthfulness of his client and those whom he interviews in deciding how to pursue his investigation”
• stating that counsel “may rely on the truthfulness of his client and those whom he interviews in deciding how to pursue his investigation”
• failure to introduce evidence of childhood abuse or mental impairment not ineffective where counsel concluded evidence could have been used by jury to make finding of future dangerousness
• “Brady requires that the government disclose only evidence that is not available to the defense from other sources, either directly or through diligent investigation.” (citation omitted)
• defense counsel may rely on truthfulness of client’s confidential statements when deciding how to pursue investigation
• “[S]tate procedural default finding is binding on a federal court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).