legal-strategy

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-5091 Tyre Bradbury v. Indiana Indiana 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-or-nothing-strategy criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-consultation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-strategy lesser-included-offenses performance-deficiency strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy Is the decision not to tender available lesser included offense instructions in order to instead pursue an "all or nothing " strategy an "important de…
21-1072 Steven Carrol DeMocker v. Arizona Arizona 2022-02-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-question implausible-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-strategy right-to-counsel third-party-culpability This petition presents the question whether offering an implausible third-party culpability defense violates a defendant's right to the effective assi…