United States v. Cordoba

How courts have described this case

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• deciding ineffective assistance of counsel claim during direct review
• finding ineffective assistance of counsel when defense counsel failed to conduct adequate pretrial investigation.
• defense counsel’s poor handling of evidence necessary to alibi defense, along with other failures, was ineffective assistance
• failure to investigate alibi until 5 months after the allegation resulted in a finding of ineffective counsel
• ineffective assistance of counsel existed for failure to interview potential defense witnesses identified by accused
• deficient preparation by counsel casts doubt on the reliability of the adversarial testing process of the trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).