Under what circumstances can an attorney be found to have acted within reasonable professional assistance?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Martinez v. Holland, CASE NO. 13cv3007-GPC (WVG) (S.D. Cal. 2014):

within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance." Id; see also Cullen v. Pinholster, 131 S.Ct. 1388, 1407 (2011) (courts must give "attorneys the benefit of the doubt" for proceeding as they did).

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