Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Swisher v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline
Swisher v. Comm’n for Law. Discipline, 526 U.S. 1164 (1999)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1999-06-07
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- counsel’s choice to elicit defendant’s prior bad acts in examination of other witnesses did not fall below objective standard of reasonableness
- discussing Harris rule with approval
Citator
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