Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.

How later courts describe this case

• concluding that capital sentencing proceedings under Florida law were indistinguishable from ordinary trial for purposes of right to counsel, because they were “sufficiently like a trial in [their] adversarial format and in the existence of standards for decision”
• When criminal defendant complains of ineffectiveness of counsel’s assistance, the proper measure of attorney performance remains simply reasonableness under prevailing professional norms.
• right to effective assistance violated when government “interferes in certain ways with the ability of counsel to make independent decisions about how to conduct the defense”
• right to counsel also guaranteed by Wyo. Const. art. 1, § 10
• when needs of grand jury conflict