Torrington Sav. Bank Mortg. Servicing Co. v. Chance

How courts have described this case

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

• acknowledging that counsel has a duty to consult with defendant's questions of overarching defense strategy
• \'[A] court need not determine whether counsel's performance was deficient before examining the prejudice suffered by the defendant as a result of the alleged deficiencies.'\
• counsel provides constitutionally deficient representation when conduct was objectively unreasonable; courts are highly deferential when reviewing alleged deficiencies and make every effort to eliminate distorting effects of hindsight
• explaining the interrelationship between Strickland and Cronic
• Carter decision called into question

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).