Scott Lee Tinsley v. George Million, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing decision on requested jury instructions to be matter for lawyer as part of trial strategy
• noting that a habeas petitioner cannot demonstrate prejudice from the failure to call specific witnesses absent “evidence showing that they would have offered specific favorable testimony.”
• finding that without evidence showing that a witness would have offered specific, favorable testimony, there can be no showing of prejudice from counsel’s decision not to call that witness
• characterizing the decision not to request lesser offense jury instructions as \a permissible exercise of trial strategy\
• stating that counsel’s decision not to request a jury instruction on the lesser included offense of manslaughter was sound trial strategy, where defendant’s primary line of defense was that he did not shoot the victim
• finding that a habeas petitioner fails to demonstrate prejudice when he cannot come forward with evidence that there was an expert who would have reached an opinion contrary to the opinion of the state’s expert

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).