Faymor Development Co. v. King

How later courts describe this case

• for further consideration in light of Owen v. City of Independence, 445 U.S. 622, 100 S.Ct. 1398, 63 L.Ed.2d 673 (1980)
• ineffective assistance where counsel did not call alibi witnesses to testify, despite repeated urgings by Bell v. Georgia, 554 F.2d 1361 (5th Cir. 1977
• "(A)n attorney does not provide effective assistance if he fails to investigate sources of evidence which may be helpful to the defense."
• “where an allegation of ineffective assistance by counsel is premised on specific acts or omissions of counsel, the allegations must be buttressed by a showing of injury or prejudice to the defendant”
• no good faith defense for strip search performed pursuant to county policy
• “[I]f a defense attorney were to put on what amounted to no defense at all, we would ‘not stop to determine whether prejudice resulted,’ Hamilton v. Alabama, 368 U.S. 52, 55, 82 S.Ct. 157, 159, 7 L.Ed.2d 114 (1961).”
• disobeying traffic signal and operating vehicle without license plates