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7 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 106 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 State v. Straw.

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1 State v. Straw Anchor
iowa · 2006
green “(1) his trial counsel failed to perform an essential duty, and (2) this failure resulted in prejudice.” 54
2 State v. Graves
iowa · 2003
green “a defendant's inability to prove either element is fatal.” 21
3 Lynn G. Lamasters Vs. State of Iowa
iowa · 2012
green “there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.” 15
4 State v. Neuendorf
iowa · 1993
green “in the absence of some factual showing that this circumstance resulted in a juror being seated who was not impartial, the existence of prejudice is entirely speculative.” 7
5 State v. Carey
iowa · 2006
green “but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.” 3
6 State v. Tillman
iowa · 1994
green “the defendant must show (1) an error in the court's ruling on the challenge for cause; and (2) either (a) the challenged juror served on the jury, or (b) the remaining jury was biased as a result of the defendant's use of all of the peremptory challenges.” 3
7 State v. Begey
iowa · 2003
green “that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the 'counsel' guaranteed the defendant by the sixth amendment.” 3

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