Williams v. Lemmon

How courts have described this case

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• applying this aspect of Strickland to another proceeding in which a prisoner contended that counsel had not inter‐ viewed and called witnesses
• an egregious error is “an omission of something obviously better (in light of what was known at the time) than the line of defense that counsel pursued”
• “the question is not whether [a] lawyer’s work was error-free, or the best possible approach, or even an average one but whether the defendant had the ‘counsel’ of which the [S]ixth [A]mendment speaks.”
• “It is essential to evaluate the entire course of the defense, because the question is not whether the lawyer’s work was error-free, or the best possible approach, or even an average one, but whether the defendant had the ‘counsel’ of which the sixth amendment speaks.”
• “[A] single error may suffice if that error is sufficiently egregious and prejudicial . . . . [A]n egregious error . . . [is] an omission of something obviously better (in light of what was known at the time) than the line of defense that counsel pursued.”

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