& SC13-706 Lamar Z. Brooks v. State of Florida and Lamar Z. Brooks v. Julie L. Jones, etc.

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting argument that counsel was ineffective for failing to raise a due-process defense based on a case not issued until two years after trial, and noting that “This Court has made clear that counsel cannot be held ineffective for failing to anticipate changes in the law”
• “[B]oth the record and our prior precedent demonstrate that trial counsel made a reasonable, strategic decision . . . to pursue the theory of reasonable doubt by arguing, through inference rather than witness testimony, that no forensic evidence linked Brooks to the murders.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).