Yarborough v. Gentry, No. 02-1597 (U.S. Supreme Court) (540 U.S. 1; 124 S.Ct. 1) (October 20, 2003) (Per Curiam)
Loaded on Sept. 1, 2003
published in Punch and Jurists
September 29, 2003
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Strickland Standard.
Here the Court summarily reversed a Ninth Circuit decision that had granted habeas relief to a death row inmate on the grounds that his counsel had been per se ineffective for making a series of derogatory comments about his client.
In Gentry v. Roe, 320 F.3d 891 (9th Cir. 2003) ...
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