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Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim Fails in Supreme Court: Insanity Defense Debate  


Author:  Fred Cohen.


Source: Volume 11, Number 05, January/February 2010 , pp.79-79(1)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

No constitutional violation is found when counsel persuades a defendant to forgo an insanity defense that counsel had good reason to believe was doomed to failure.

Keywords: Knowles v. Mirzayance , 129 S.Ct. 2426, Strickland v. Washington , 466 U.S. 668

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.

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