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    Feb232003

    Supreme Court to Decide "Ineffective Counsel" Capital Case

    DateSunday, February 23, 2003 at 6:04AM

    The legal test for whether a conviction can be overturned because of the ineffectiveness of trial counsel has grown murky since the Supreme Court decided Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, in 1984. Now the Supreme Court has agreed to review the case of Wiggins v. Corcoran, No. 01-311, and many hope that the decision will clarify the test, the ABA Journal reports here.

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