Legal Opinion
Strickland v. Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 25, 1984No. 82-1554PublishedCited by 93,128 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
This ease requires us to consider the proper standards for judging a criminal defendant’s contention that the Constitution requires a conviction or death sentence to be set aside because counsel’s assistance at the trial or sentencing was ineffective.
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During a 10-day period in September 1976, respondent planned and committed three groups of crimes, which in-*672eluded three brutal stabbing murders, torture, kidnaping, severe assaults, attempted murders, attempted extortion, and theft. After his two accomplices were arrested, respondent surrendered to police and voluntarily gave a lengthy…
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