Solimine v. International Law Students Ass'n

How later courts describe this case

• "We hold . . . that it is within the trial judge's discretion to fashion the appropriate remedy under the particular facts of each case"
• “We hold ... ’that it is within the trial judge’s discretion to fashion the appropriate remedy under the particular facts of each case”.... (citation omitted)
• psychiatrist who never examined defendant may base opinion on reports prepared by persons who did
• psychiatrist who did not personally examine the defendant was permitted to render an opinion based on reports prepared by others who examined the defendant but did not testify at trial
• "our decisions teach that whether counsel's performance is constitutionally deficient depends upon the totality of the circumstances viewed through a lens shaped by the rules and presumptions set down in Strickland v. Washington , and its progeny"
• “[A] petitioner seeking to rebut the strong presumption of effectiveness bears a difficult burden.”