Reed v. Tilton

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• “In light of the strong evidence of guilt, there is no reasonable probability that the outcome of the trial would have been different had trial counsel utilized alternative impeachment evidence.”
• trial counsel’s failure to impeach witness with particular information did not result in prejudice where such information had “only marginal impeachment value” and the evidence of guilt was strong
• no prejudice from trial counsel’s failure to impeach witness with prior testimony because the inconsistencies at issue were explored in detail during cross-examination and other witnesses testified similarly regarding the manner in which the defendant shot the victim
• con- cluding appellant failed to show prejudice because “even if trial counsel had engaged in additional impeachment . . . there were still two other eyewitnesses who knew [appellant], identified him as the shooter, and gave similar descriptions of how he shot the victim”
• evidence with marginal impeachment value does not establish prejudice
• evidence with marginal impeachment value does not establish prejudice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).