Can defense counsel be ineffective for failing to object or request additional time?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. Flores, B241025 (Cal. App. 2014):

We similarly cannot find defense counsel was ineffective for failing to object, or in failing to request additional time to prepare. There was nothing improper in the court's decision to allow supplemental argument, and, on the record before us, there is no reason to believe defense counsel needed more time to prepare argument on this fundamental concept that both sides had already discussed in their earlier arguments. Flores is not entitled to relief due to ineffective assistance of counsel on this issue. (People v. Young (2007) 156 Cal.App.4th 1165, 1171-1172.)

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