California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Littlefield, A147965 (Cal. App. 2017):
developed . . . ." (People v. Mendoza Tello (1997) 15 Cal.4th 264, 267.) "Rather than attempt to glean inferences from a record where the critical questions were irrelevant and unasked" (id. at p. 268), it is customary to affirm the judgment on direct appeal and permit the defendant to raise the issue on habeas corpus (id. at pp. 266-267).
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