Ronald Barrow v. Alan Uchtman, Warden

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “Strickland is the appropriate governing precedent” in cir- cumstances such as these
• noting that a petitioner “must show that the performance of counsel fell outside the range of competence demanded of attorneys in criminal cases—i.e., that it fell below an objective standard of reasonableness.”
• holding ignorance of relevant law objec- tively deficient under Strickland
• rejecting claim that counsel’s failure to present any evidence was legitimate strategic move

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).