Ryan v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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• remanding for determination on the merits of ineffective assistance claim because “different attorneys from the same public defender’s office are not to be considered ‘new’ counsel for the purpose of raising ineffective assistance claims”
• counsel cannot be expected to raise ineffective assistance of counsel claim against coworker in same law firm or public defender’s office
• for the purpose of raising a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, “attorneys in a public defender’s office are to be treated as members of a law firm . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).