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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 13 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 Mantooth v. State.

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1 Mantooth v. State Anchor
gactapp · 2010
green “can provide no grounds for reversal unless it was so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen it.” 6
2 Farris v. State
gactapp · 2008
green “that this strategy was ultimately unsuccessful in securing a defense verdict on all charges does not show that trial counsel's” 4
3 Paul v. State
gactapp · 2002
green “considering the overwhelming evidence" that defendant had committed the crime at issue, trial counsel acted reasonably in arguing "that the state could prove robbery, but not armed robbery” 3

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