Saranchak v. Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the PCRA court’s repeated misstatements of the law indicated that the PCRA court “misapprehended Strickland’s prejudice prong.”
• “Strickland prejudice does not depend on the sufficiency of the evidence despite counsel’s mistakes.”
• declining to resolve a similar question

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