United States v. John Bass

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that it was reasonable trial strategy to not impeach government witnesses’ testimony using prior inconsistent statements when doing so would require counsel to dwell on a murder in which “there was an indication that [the defendant] had been involved”
• finding that a defendant’s assertions of prejudice were “vague and unsupported” when the defendant “d[id] not state what testimony any missing witnesses could have provided, which witnesses’ memories were affected, or how his own memory problems affected his defense”
• “That the delay was caused by the case’s complexity favors a finding of no constitutional violation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).