Nonetheless, the Supreme Court has found notable examples of ineffectiveness. In Rompilla v. Beard, the Supreme Court faulted the defendant’s lawyer for not reviewing a file that the attorney knew would be used by the prosecution in the sentencing phase of the trial. In Glover v. United States, a lawyer was held to be ineffective when he failed to object to the judge’s miscalculation of the defendant’s sentence. In Hinton v. Alabama, the Supreme Court held a lawyer’s performance ineffective when he did not request funding for a better ballistics expert, though he was statutorily entitled to do so.
