Court of Appeals of Utah· 3/26/1993

State v. Tennyson

Citations

850 P.2d 461
209 Utah Adv. Rep. 46
1993 Utah App. LEXIS 55
1993 WL 87229

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recognizing that “authority from this court supports the notion that an ineffective assistance claim succeeds only when no conceivable legitimate tactic or strategy can be surmised from counsel’s actions”
noting that failure on either prong of the Strickland analysis will defeat a defendant's claim
stating that to reject an ineffective assistance claim, “we need only articulate some plausible strategic explanation for counsel’s behavior”
determining counsel’s performance was not deficient, in part because counsel was “actively engaged in the [jury] selection process”
explaining that ineffective assistance claims “rarely succeed”
“[W]e need only articulate some plausible strategic explanation for counsel’s behavior” to dispose of an argument that counsel’s performance was objectively deficient.

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Judges: Garff, Greenwood, Orme

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