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Subscribe to the West Headnote of the Day Start each business day with an amusing, profound or otherwise interesting West Headnote of the Day, delivered to your desktop via e-mail. Subscribe now to this FREE service. 110 Criminal Law 110XXXI Counsel 110XXXI(C) Adequacy of Representation 110XXXI(C)1 In General 110k1879 Standard of Effective Assistance in General 110k1883 k. Prejudice in General. The critical issue in a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is not whether counsel made errors, but whether counsel was so thoroughly ineffective that defeat was snatched from the hands of probable victory. Simmons v. Com., 191 S.W.3d 557 (2006)

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