United States v. McArthur Edwards, AKA Edwards McArthur and Charles Darnell Ward

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, even though counsel’s “representation was professional and adequate” in general, it was deficient as to the “the critical issue of sanity and more narrowly as to adequate psychiatric assistance in relation to that issue”
• this court has long recognized critical interrelation between expert psychiatric assistance and minimally effective counsel
• failure to pursue a successful motion for a court appointed psychiatrist

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).