How have courts dealt with ineffective assistance of counsel claims?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Chavez, C082435 (Cal. App. 2017):
By failing to object to the evidence below, defendant has forfeited his appellate challenge. (People v. Doolin (2009) 45 Cal.4th 390, 434 [the defendant forfeited challenges based on 1101, 1102, and 352 by failing to object on those grounds at trial].) Anticipating this result, defendant contends his counsel was constitutionally ineffective for failing to preserve the issue for appellate review.
To prevail on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim, defendant must establish trial counsel's representation fell below professional standards of reasonableness and must affirmatively establish prejudice. (Strickland v. Washington (1984) 466 U.S. 668, 687 [80 L.Ed.2d 674, 693].) "If it is easier to dispose of an ineffectiveness claim on the ground of lack of sufficient prejudice, which we expect will often be so, that course
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