Torres-Chavez v. Holder

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that counsel’s reasonable strategic choice does not amount to ineffective assistance
• explaining that it is “legitimate” for immigration attorneys to “concede” one form of relief so as to “focus[] the court’s attention on a [different] basis for relief”
• declining to find ineffective assistance where counsel made a tactical decision; court must evaluate counsel’s decisions from counsel’s perspective at the time
• “counsel’s informed decisions” and “strategic choices” must be respected “if they are based on professional judgment”
• aliens are generally bound by strategic and tactical decisions made by their attorneys
• counsel’s decision-making “did not fall outside the wide range of reasonable representation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).