Willie Harris v. Zettie Cotton, Superintendent

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing a conviction because counsel failed to obtain and present a toxicology report of a victim in a self-defense case
• “A rule is clearly established only if it is compelled by existing Supreme Court precedent.”
• “[C]hoices made by an attorney as to what evidence should be presented . . . are strongly presumed to be tactical decisions and therefore, objectively reasonable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).