Robert Sanders v. Myrna Trickey, Superintendent, Missouri Eastern Correctional Center, and William L. Webster, Missouri Attorney General

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• noting that, when determining whether counsel’s representation was deficient, a “court must avoid second-guessing trial strategy”
• holding, “Since appellant offers only speculation that he was prejudiced by the failure of his counsel to interview [a witness], he has not made the required showing of prejudice under Strickland.”
• finding that mere speculation cannot meet the Strickland prejudice requirement
• characterizing decision to call a witness as “precisely the type of strategic decision which Strickland protects from second-guessing”
• finding that mere speculation cannot meet the Strickland prejudice requirement
• The decision to call a witness is “precisely the sort of strategic trial decision that Strickland protects from second-guessing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).