United States v. Jeffrey Pendleton

How courts have described this case

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• emphasizing that in order to convict on aggravated sexual abuse, the jury must find that defendant used actual physical force against the victim or made a specific kind of threat like fear of death, serious bodily injury, or kidnapping
• emphasizing that in order to convict on aggravated sexual abuse, the jury must find that defendant used actual physical force against the victim or made a specific kind of threat like fear of death, serious bodily injury, or kidnapping
• defense counsel is expected to know the law and \a mistake of law is deficient performance.\
• failure to object to jury instructions is ineffective assistance if the instruction misstates the law and there is a reasonable probability a properly instructed jury would have found the evidence insufficient to convict
• “[A] mistake of law is deficient performance.”
• “[A] mistake of law is deficient performance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).