United States v. Cronic

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that counsel's conduct may be so egregious that \no amount of showing of want of prejudice would cure it\
• recognizing that counsel’s conduct may be so egregious that “no amount of showing of want of prejudice would cure it”
• recognizing that the right to counsel is “so basic to a fair trial that [its] infraction can never be treated as harmless error”
• holding that the presumed prejudice doctrine did not apply where counsel was afforded twenty-five days for trial preparation
• holding that the presumed prejudice doctrine did not apply where counsel was afforded twenty-five days for trial preparation
• holding that counsel, who was inexperienced, was not presumed ineffective when given only 25 days to prepare for trial in a bank fraud case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).