How unusual is this?

For a court to overturn a conviction, particularly on the basis that the defendant’s counsel was ineffective, is rare, said Erica Zunkel, a criminal defense expert and law professor at the University of Chicago Law School. “It does not require much to be considered effective. There has been cases where an attorney has been sleeping, drunk or in bad health during a trial and the high courts have found that this did not result in a bad outcome,” Zunkel said.

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