What is the test for determining whether a reasonable lawyer acted as defense counsel at trial?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Coleman v. Calderon, 150 F.3d 1105 (9th Cir. 1998):
The test has nothing to do with what the best lawyers would have done. Nor is the test even what most good lawyers would have done. We ask only whether some reasonable lawyer at the trial could have acted, in the circumstances, as defense counsel acted at trial.
Dyer, 122 F.3d at 732 (quoting White v. Singletary, 972 F.2d 1218, 1220 (11th Cir.1992)).
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