Topic: overcome the strong presumption that counsel's performance … · Go Syfert
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4 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 19 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Lockhart v. State.

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1 Lockhart v. State Anchor
ga · 2016
green “overcome the strong presumption that counsel's performance fell within a wide range of reasonable professional conduct, and that counsel's decisions were made in the exercise of reasonable professional judgment.” 6
2 Lockhart v. State
ga · 2016
green “a reasonable probability that, absent any unprofessional errors on counsel's part, the result of his trial would have been different.” 5
3 Lockhart v. State
ga · 2016
green “both that counsel's performance was deficient, and that the deficient performance was prejudicial to his defense.” 5
4 Redding v. State
ga · 2015
green “if the defendant fails to satisfy either the 'deficient performance' or the 'prejudice' prong of the strickland test, this court is not required to examine the other.” 3

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