Strickland v. Washington
5-4
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How Bad Is a Lawyer's Representation?
The Supreme Court took up the case to consider what standards there may be for judging an attorney's ineffective or deficient representation. The court is addressing this dilemma: How do you handle situations where someone has an attorney, but the attorney is so ineffective that he's just functionally not there? And they create a two part test to see if someone's Sixth Amendment rights were violated in these situations.
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