Roger Dale Sherron v. Larry Norris, Interim Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

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• concluding that -12- given the testimony in hand, “counsel’s decision to forgo what would at best have been cumulative testimony was not professionally unreasonable”
• considering only admissible evidence in determining whether a decision not to call a witness was prejudicial
• “Strickland does not require perfect trial performance; it requires only competence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).