Walter Barton v. State of Missouri

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that “because the jury is instructed that the lawyers’ arguments are not evidence, prejudice is unlikely to result from the failure to object to statements made in closing argument.”
• holding counsel is not ineffective for failing to make a nonmeritorious objection
• failure to call a witness was not ineffective assistance of counsel under the Strickland standard
• “This Court defers to the motion court’s superior opportunity to judge the credibility of witnesses.”
• “counsel has a duty to make reasonable investigations or to make a reasonable decision that makes’ particular investigations unnecessary”
• “counsel has a duty to make reasonable investigations or to make a reasonable decision that makes’ particular investigations unnecessary”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).