Tevlin v. Spencer

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A] lawyer’s performance is deficient under Strickland‘only where ... counsel’s choice was so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have made it.’”
• “The Massachusetts procedure is no more restrictive, and in fact appears to be more permissive, than the Alaska postconviction discovery procedures authorized by the Supreme Court in Osborne”
• “[T]his court has held that a lawyer’s performance is deficient under Strickland only where, given the facts known at the time, counsel’s choice was so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have made it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).