Jones v. United States

As the majority notes, Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984), provides that to prevail on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, a defendant must show both *413that the performance of counsel was deficient and that he was prejudiced by that deficiency. To meet the test, a defendant must establish “that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the ‘counsel’ guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment,” Id. at 687, 104 S.Ct. 2052 and that the defendant suffered prejudice because “there is a reasonable probability that, but…