effective assistance of counsel

effective assistance of counsel
Conscientious, meaningful representation wherein accused is advised of his rights and honest, learned and able counsel is given a reasonable opportunity to perform task assigned to him. State v. Williams, Iowa, 207 N.W.2d 98, 104.
Benchmark for judging any claim of ineffectiveness of counsel must be whether counsel's conduct so undermined proper functioning of adversarial process that trial cannot be relied on as having produced a just result.
See Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674.
As required by 6th Amendment for criminal defendant, does not mean errorless counsel, and not counsel judged ineffective by hindsight, but counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance; this necessarily involves inquiry into actual performance of counsel in conducting defense, based on totality of circumstances of entire record. Beavers v. Balkcom, C.A.Ga., 636 F.2d 114, 115. 18 U.S.C.A. No. 3006A.

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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