Yarnell v. Farmers Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Strickland does not require that expert testimony of outside attorneys be used to determine the appropriate standard of care
• concluding 25 there was no prejudice where trial counsel had personally interviewed the one eyewitness and 26 read investigative reports and transcripts of interviews with all other 27 witnesses
• reviewing district court’s denial of motion to withdraw for abuse of 8 discretion
• “[I]t is not the experience of the attorney that is evaluated, but rather, his performance.”
• “These cases, taken together, stand for the proposition that states may not impede a defendant’s right to put on a defense by imposing mechanistic (Chambers ) or arbitrary ('Washington and Rock) rules of evidence.”
• defense counsel need not personally conduct interviews where he had transcripts of prosecution interviews

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).