United States v. Lewis Aaron Cook

How courts have described this case

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• holding that counsel's strategic decision to omit weaker issues does not violate Sixth Amendment's right to effective assistance
• holding that failure to raise meritless issue does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel
• noting that appellate counsel properly weeds out weak issues on appeal so as not to detract a judge's attention from stronger issues
• noting that appellate counsel properly weeds out weak issues on appeal so as not to detract a judge’s attention from stronger issues
• suggesting that appellate counsel’s failure to raise issue which “ ‘was obvious on the record, and must have leaped out upon even a casual reading of [the] transcript’ ” was objectively unreasonable
• holding defendant may establish cause for procedural default by showing ineffective assistance of counsel

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