Tajikah U. Abdul Karim v. Wilkinson & Sons Plastering, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding a petitioner’s “[r]eliance on ‘the harsh light of hindsight’ to second-guess his counsel’s competence in the crucible of trial ‘is precisely what Strickland and AEDPA seek to prevent.’”
• noting that “Richey predates the Supreme Court’s guidance in Harrington”
• distinguishing Richey on similar grounds and finding no ineffective assistance of counsel for failing to hire an expert
• distinguishing Richey by finding that it was reasonable for counsel to build his case around the State’s witness’s anticipated testimony, and that “a fair minded jurist could conclude that counsel had reasonably decided that no expert was necessary given [the witness’s] anticipated testimony”
• “[T]he Sixth Amendment does not require an attorney to interview a witness personally when he reasonably believes that doing so is unnecessary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).