In re Stephen E.’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “(1) counsel's performance was deficient, i.e., that there has been serious incompetency, inefficiency, or inattention of counsel amounting to performance below what might be expected from an ordinary fallible attorney, and (2) the parent was prejudiced by the attorney's deficient performance in that counsel's conduct so undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process that the trial cannot be relied on as having produced a just result.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Kimberlee C. · In re Child of Dawn B.

2. “Regardless of how the parent presents the claim, the parent must execute and file an affidavit stating, with specificity, the basis for the claim.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Children of Matthew G. · In re Child of Dawn B.

3. “Second, if the basis for the parent's ineffectiveness challenge is not clear from the existing record and would require a court to consider extrinsic evidence, the parent must promptly move for relief from a judgment terminating his or her parental rights pursuant to M.R. Civ. P. 60(b)(6).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Children of Matthew G.