Ward v. Dretke

How courts have described this case

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• requiring for deficiency that trial strategy be “so ill chosen that it permeates the entire trial with obvious unfairness”
• granting a hearing could allow appellant to prove the petition's factual allegations, and that those, if proven, would entitle the appellant to Habeas Corpus relief. citing Schriro 550 U.S. @474
• counsel not ineffective for failing to lodge what would likely have been a futile objection
• counsel not ineffective for failing to lodge what would likely have been a futile objection
• counsel not ineffective for failing to lodge what would likely have been a futile objection
• counsel not ineffective for failing to lodge what would likely have been a futile objection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).