Slaton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “To prove deficient performance, one must show that his attorney performed at trial in an objectively unreasonable way considering all the circumstances and in the light of prevailing professional norms. Courts reviewing ineffectiveness claims must apply a strong presumption that counsel's conduct fell within the wide range of reasonable professional performance. Thus, decisions regarding trial tactics and strategy may form the basis for an ineffectiveness claim only if they were so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have followed such a course. If the defendant fails to satisfy either the "deficient performance" or the "prejudice" prong of the Strickland test, this Court is not required to examine the other.”

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

2. “because an objection likely would not have prevented the admission of the testimony, either because the trial court would have permitted the questions to be answered ... [in order] to develop the witness's testimony ... or because the prosecutor could have rephrased his questions.”

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

3. “both that his counsel performed deficiently and that, but for the deficiency, there is a reasonable probability that the outcome would have been more favorable.”

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