U.S. v. Granados, No. 97-2434 (8th Cir.) (168 F.3d 343) (February 11, 1999) (Per Curiam)
Loaded on April 1, 1999
published in Punch and Jurists
April 05, 1999
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Strickland Standard.
To help put the label of "ineffective assistance of counsel" in context, there ought to be a similar label for "ineffective rulings by judges." The reason is that, while judges seem to survive unscathed when they issue an erroneous ruling about the indecipherable and convoluted Federal Sentencing Guidelines (an …
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