Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Rovetuso v. United States
Rovetuso v. United States, 474 U.S. 1076 (1986)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1986-01-13
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- not ineffective assistance of counsel to fail to present expert to testify as to unreliability of eyewitness testimony where likelihood of misidentification was fully explored on cross-examination
- counsel not ineffective where counsel made tactical choice not to make opening argument
- a prisoner has no right to a doctor of his own choice
Citator
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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied.
Justice White would grant certio-rari.