Category: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

Like any attorney whose practice focuses on post-conviction work, I have a favorite passage from Strickland vs. Washington (what? Is that weird?). It states: strategic choices made after less than complete investigation are reasonable precisely to the extent that reasonable professional judgments support the limitations on

Since I spend so many of my days arguing that defense attorneys are ineffective and then asking them not to take it personally, I thought I would try to start sharing a few cases where IAC was found with the goal of helping my colleagues