Terry v. Jenkins

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming the habeas court's vacating of a death sentence where lead counsel and co-counsel miscommunicated regarding who would be responsible for preparing evidence
• affirming the habeas court’s vacating of a death sentence where lead counsel and co-counsel miscommunicated regarding who would be responsible for preparing evidence
• “Counsel’s failure to investigate is unreasonable where ... it resulted from inattention and not from reasoned strategic judgment. [Cit.]”
• trial counsel’s failure to investigate factual defense or obtain available testimony uncovered by habeas counsel was inconsistent with professional standards and unreasonable
• trial counsel’s failure to investigate factual defense or obtain available testimony uncovered by habeas counsel was inconsistent with professional standards and unreasonable
• “[T]he burden in an ineffective assistance claim is to show only ‘a reasonable probability’ of a different outcome, not that a different outcome would have been certain or even ‘more likely than not.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).