Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Hutchins v. Garrison
Hutchins v. Garrison, 464 U.S. 1065 (1984)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1984-01-11
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- "Counsel’s advice not to testify is a paradigm of the type of tactical decision that cannot be challenged as evidence of ineffective assistance.”
- advice of counsel not to testify is type of tactical decision that cannot form basis of claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
- abuse of writ in belated raising of new theory of claim on basis of recent scientific knowledge
Citator
UpLaw has not yet analyzed Hutchins v. Garrison. The absence of a flag is not a finding that it is good law.
- Cited by
- 37 opinions
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