Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Rovetuso v. United States

474 U.S. 1076

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.