United States v. Walter v. Jackson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that overwhelming evidence of defendant's guilt negated any reasonable probability that error by counsel affected outcome of trial
• holding that defense counsel’s failure to object to prosecutor’s remark in the opening statement was consistent with a “reasonable tactical decision”
• finding that an attorney’s representation is not inadequate if the relevant conduct could be viewed as “a reasonable tactical decision”
• finding that an attorney's representation is not inadequate if the relevant conduct could be viewed as \a reasonable tactical decision\
• stating that “counsel’s failure to object to the prosecutor’s remark and to request a curative instruction seems consistent with a reasonable tactical decision to minimize any harm the prosecutor’s remark may have caused, by not inviting further attention to it”
• considering defendant and circumstances, threat to harm an adult sibling would be insufficient to make confession involuntary

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