Rosenzweig v. Lofton

How courts have described this case

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

• failure to introduce available evidence corroborating defendant’s account “supports a finding that counsel’s performance was deficient”
• where case was a pure credibility contest, counsel’s failure to introduce available evidence that corroborates the defense supports a finding that counsel’s performance was deficient
• failure to introduce available evidence corroborating defendant’s account “supports a finding that counsel’s performance was deficient.”
• “In close cases, where the evidence presented by the state is thin, mistakes made by trial counsel take on greater significance.”
• failure to introduce available documents corroborating defendant’s testimony prejudicial where trial was “pure credibility contest” with State’s case “resting largely upon the identification testimony of one witness”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).