Wilbert Lee Evans v. Charles Thompson, Superintendent

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• holding that deciding whether to object or not is a tactical decision that “attorneys make routinely”
• declaring that counsel pursued sound strategy when he “determined what he believed to be petitioner’s most viable arguments and raised them on appeal.”
• noting that death row prisoners \are not a suspect class for equal protection purposes\
• noting that death row prisoners \are not a suspect class for equal protection purposes\
• statutory amendment establishing new procedures for resentencing in cases where a prior death sentence was vacated was rational and therefore constitutional
• appellate counsel in death penalty case “was under no duty to go beyond the trial record because nothing beyond that record would have been cognizable on appeal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).