Topic: counsel is presumed to have been effective. · Go Syfert
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3 canonical passages across 3 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 Commonwealth v. Andrews.

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1 Commonwealth v. Andrews Anchor
pasuperct · 2017
green “counsel is presumed to have been effective.” 9
2 Commonwealth v. McGarry
pasuperct · 2017
green “we review the denial of a pcra petition to determine whether the record supports the pcra court's findings and whether its order is otherwise free of legal error.” 6
3 Commonwealth v. Grove
pasuperct · 2017
green “petitioner must plead and prove that: (1) the underlying legal claim is of arguable merit; (2) counsel's action or inaction lacked any objectively reasonable basis designed to effectuate his or her client's interest; and (3) prejudice, to the effect that there was a reasonable p…” 4

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