How have appellate courts treated ineffective assistance of counsel?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Jackson, D067749 (Cal. App. 2016):
Rarely will an appellate record establish ineffective assistance of counsel. (People v. Thompson (2010) 49 Cal.4th 79, 122.) Where " ' " 'the record on appeal sheds no light on why counsel acted or failed to act in the manner challenged[,] . . . unless counsel was
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