Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “strong presumption of competence, we need not come to a conclusion that counsel, in fact, had a specific strategy in mind. Instead, we need only articulate some plausible strategic explanation for counsel's behavior. This calls for an inquiry into the objective reasonableness of counsel's performance, not counsel's subjective state of mind.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Gallegos