Wilson National Life Insurance v. Glaaser

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the defendant was prejudiced by counsel’s failure to call alibi witness where the evidence was not overwhelming; “This case hinged on whether the jury believed [the defendant] had an alibi or [believed the lone eyewitness’s] testimony.”
• affirming grant of new trial where trial counsel failed to interview alibi witness who testified at the evidentiary (Footnote Continued
• citing, inter alia, Commonwealth v. Perry, 644 A.2d 705 (Pa. 1994); Commonwealth v. Jones, 437 A.2d 958 (Pa. 1991)
• stating, “failure to prepare is not an example of forgoing one possible avenue to pursue another approach; it is simply an abdication of the minimum performance required of defense counsel” (citations, original quotation marks, and brackets omitted)
• stating, “failure to prepare is not an example of forgoing one possible avenue to pursue another approach; it is simply an abdication of the minimum performance required of defense counsel” (citations, original quotation marks, and brackets omitted)
• “Prejudice is established if there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).