UNIVERSAL INDUSTRIAL GASES, INC. v. ACTION INDUSTRIES, INC.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that ineffective assistance of trial counsel may be established on direct appeal if trial counsel’s performance was “so outrageous that no competent attorney would have engaged in it”
• observing that “record on direct appeal is generally insufficient to show that counsel’s performance was deficient”
• observing that “record on direct appeal is generally insufficient to show that counsel’s performance was deficient”
• observing that record on direct appeal “is generally insufficient to show that counsel’s performance was deficient”
• providing that a claim for ineffectiveness of counsel “must be firmly founded in the record[,] and the record must affirmatively demonstrate the alleged ineffectiveness”
• providing that a claim for ineffectiveness of counsel “must be firmly founded in the record[,] and the record must affirmatively demonstrate the alleged ineffectiveness”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).