Simpson v. Goldman

How courts have described this case

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• where claim would be factually weak, no ineffective assistance in declining to raise insanity defense
• “a decision not to pursue an insanity defense for tactical reasons, for instance because in the circumstances the defense would be factually weak, is not tantamount to ineffective assistance of counsel”
• cumulative hearsay does not create substantial likelihood of miscarriage of justice
• “Testimony by a third party, such as a police officer, regarding a witness’s extrajudicial identification is substantively admissible if the identifying witness is unable or unwilling to make an identification in court and is available for cross-examination” [citation omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).