Trenton Millender v. Stanley Adams

How courts have described this case

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

• “[D]efense counsel has no obligation to call or even interview a witness whose testimony would not have exculpated the defendant.”
• “A defense counsel has no obligation to call or even interview a witness whose testimony would not have exculpated the defendant.”
• “It is common knowledge that defense counsel quite often waive openings as a simple matter of trial strategy . . . [s]uch a waiver has been held to be ‘trivial.’” (internal citations omitted)
• “Claims of prosecutorial misconduct are reviewed deferentially on habeas review.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).