45 Cited authorities

Strickland v. Washington
466 U.S. 668 (1984) Cited 158,554 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"
Anders v. California
386 U.S. 738 (1967) Cited 77,699 times 14 Legal Analyses
Holding that when counsel determines that a criminal defendant's case is "wholly frivolous," counsel must "so advise the court and request permission to withdraw"
Jones v. Barnes
463 U.S. 745 (1983) Cited 11,143 times 21 Legal Analyses
Holding that it was not ineffective assistance for appellate counsel to decline to make every nonfrivolous argument requested by the defendant
Boykin v. Alabama
395 U.S. 238 (1969) Cited 13,220 times 12 Legal Analyses
Holding that a silent record is insufficient for a waiver of certain specified rights not at issue here
Wood v. Georgia
450 U.S. 261 (1981) Cited 1,221 times 10 Legal Analyses
Holding the trial court violated its duty to inquire into the conflict created by the fact that the defendant's lawyer was hired and paid by a third party
People v. Seaberg
74 N.Y.2d 1 (N.Y. 1989) Cited 1,837 times 1 Legal Analyses
Rejecting Bourne
People v. Brown
45 N.Y.2d 852 (N.Y. 1978) Cited 477 times
Holding that because, "[g]enerally, the ineffectiveness of counsel is not demonstrable on the main record,... it would be better, and in some cases essential, that an appellate attack on the effectiveness of counsel be bottomed on an evidentiary exploration by collateral or post-conviction proceedings brought under CPL 440.10"
Sheppard v. State
17 So. 3d 275 (Fla. 2009) Cited 102 times
Holding that defendant cannot file a pro se extraordinary writ with the Florida Supreme Court while simultaneously being represented by counsel in an ongoing lower court proceeding
People v. Berroa
99 N.Y.2d 134 (N.Y. 2002) Cited 122 times
In Berroa, defense counsel's out-of-court conversations with defense witnesses created the potential that she would become a witness against her client when those witnesses later gave alibi testimony contradicting what they had previously told her.
People v. Ortiz
76 N.Y.2d 652 (N.Y. 1990) Cited 131 times
During trial, former client of defense counsel confessed that he, not defendant, committed offenses which defendant was charged

The People, Respondent,v.Josue Deliser, Appellant.

45 Cited authorities

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"

Holding that when counsel determines that a criminal defendant's case is "wholly frivolous," counsel must "so advise the court and request permission to withdraw"

Holding that it was not ineffective assistance for appellate counsel to decline to make every nonfrivolous argument requested by the defendant

Holding that a silent record is insufficient for a waiver of certain specified rights not at issue here

Holding the trial court violated its duty to inquire into the conflict created by the fact that the defendant's lawyer was hired and paid by a third party

Rejecting Bourne

Holding that defendant cannot file a pro se extraordinary writ with the Florida Supreme Court while simultaneously being represented by counsel in an ongoing lower court proceeding

In Berroa, defense counsel's out-of-court conversations with defense witnesses created the potential that she would become a witness against her client when those witnesses later gave alibi testimony contradicting what they had previously told her.

During trial, former client of defense counsel confessed that he, not defendant, committed offenses which defendant was charged