Smith v. Collins

How later courts describe this case

• noting that “it is inevitable that in some cases, like the present one, a court is forced to order an (h)(8
• Wisconsin authorities' knowledge of defendant's invocation of Fifth Amendment right to counsel may not be imputed to Illinois authorities
• that there was not “cause” excusing counsel’s procedural default does not mean that counsel’s performance was constitutionally deficient
• “if a person serves as both a bailiff and a witness in the same trial, the conviction is invalid.”
• "The defense of a criminal case is not an undertaking in which everything not prohibited is required. Nor does it contemplate the employment of wholly unlimited time and resources.”
• ‘‘no criminal defendant has unlimited resources’’