Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Bendetti v. United States
Bendetti v. United States, 460 U.S. 1098 (1983)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1983-04-18
- Topic
- labor-and-employment
How later courts describe this case
- observing that ineffective counsel may satisfy cause and prejudice requirements and distinguishing Lumpkin v. Ricketts where there was a “hollow claim” or base assertion of ineffective counsel, unsupported by testimony
- "Depending upon the comprehensiveness of the [Witherspoon ] questions addressed to a potential juror, it may be possible in some instances for a court to decide that a response other than verbal is unquestionably unambiguous. We leave that question for another case...."
- “Depending upon the comprehensiveness of the [Wither-spoon ] questions addressed to a potential juror, it may be possible in some instances for a court to decide that a response other than verbal is unquestionably unambiguous. We leave that question for another case....”
- "At the heart of effective representation is the independent duty to investigate and prepare"
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C. A. 3d Cir. Motion of petitioner for leave to file supplement to petition for writ of certiorari granted. Certiorari denied.