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The People, Respondent,v.Christopher Oathout, Appellant.

Brief

16 Cited authorities

  1. Strickland v. Washington

    466 U.S. 668 (1984)   Cited 158,593 times   176 Legal Analyses
    Holding an "error by counsel" doesn't "warrant setting aside the judgment of a criminal proceeding" where in the context of the whole proceeding the identified error "had no effect on the judgment"

  2. United States v. Wade

    388 U.S. 218 (1967)   Cited 8,065 times   17 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the Sixth Amendment provides the right to counsel at a postindictment lineup even though the Fifth Amendment is not implicated

  3. Dunaway v. New York

    442 U.S. 200 (1979)   Cited 3,721 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that seizing and transporting a suspect to a police station for interrogation without probable cause violated the Fourth Amendment

  4. Mapp v. Ohio

    367 U.S. 643 (1961)   Cited 8,289 times   22 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the exclusionary rule under the Fourth Amendment applies to the States, and overruling the contrary rule of Wolf v. Colorado , 338 U.S. 25, 69 S.Ct. 1359, 93 L.Ed. 1782, after considering and rejecting "the current validity of the factual grounds upon which Wolf was based"

  5. People v. Benevento

    91 N.Y.2d 708 (N.Y. 1998)   Cited 4,212 times   2 Legal Analyses
    In People v Benevento, 91 NY2d 708, 713-14 (1998), the New York Court of Appeals held that "meaningful representation" included a prejudice component which focuses on the "fairness of the process as a whole rather than [any] particular impact on the outcome of the case."

  6. People v. Baldi

    54 N.Y.2d 137 (N.Y. 1981)   Cited 5,974 times   6 Legal Analyses
    In Baldi, the New York State Court of Appeals expressly applied the right to effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the federal Constitution.

  7. People v. Sandoval

    34 N.Y.2d 371 (N.Y. 1974)   Cited 2,457 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the trial court must balance the "probative worth of evidence of prior specific criminal, vicious or immoral acts on the issue of the defendant's credibility on the one hand, and on the other the risk of unfair prejudice to the defendant"

  8. People v. Ventimiglia

    52 N.Y.2d 350 (N.Y. 1981)   Cited 1,262 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the government is required to obtain advance judicial approval for the admission of other crimes/bad acts evidence

  9. People v. Turner

    2005 N.Y. Slip Op. 8766 (N.Y. 2005)   Cited 523 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Finding appellate counsel ineffective for not raising ineffectiveness of trial counsel on appeal

  10. People v. Ashwal

    39 N.Y.2d 105 (N.Y. 1976)   Cited 1,144 times   2 Legal Analyses
    In Ashwal, the New York Court of Appeals cited Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78, 55 S. Ct. 629 (1935), to support the proposition that "[a]bove all [the prosecutor] should not seek to lead the jury away from the issues by drawing irrelevant and inflammatory conclusions which have a decided tendency to prejudice the jury against the defendant."