State v. Gerlaugh

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that “[d]isagreements in trial strategy will not support a claim of ineffective assistance so long as the challenged conduct has some reasoned basis” (emphasis added)
• noting that counsel’s decisions about what evidence and witnesses to present at trial, particularly the cumulative evidence, is a strategic choice that will not support a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
• analyzing attorney’s “failure to argue for petitioner’s alleged intoxication” as trial strategy
• disagreements in trial strategy will not support ineffective assistance claim as long as challenged conduct has reasoned basis
• when defendant denied counsel at a critical stage of trial, prejudice “presumed” to support ineffective counsel claim
• defendant’s youth not a substantial mitigating factor since defendant had prior conviction of armed robbery at age of seventeen

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).