Is ineffective assistance of counsel ineffective on appeal?

As stated ante, "we will not find ineffective assistance of counsel on appeal unless there could be no conceivable reason for counsel's acts or omissions." (People v. Weaver, supra, 26 Cal.4th at p. 926.) A satisfactory explanation for why defense counsel chose to stipulate to the admission of the possession of a firearm finding in the first trial may exist. For example, counsel may have wanted the jury to infer that a prior jury could not reach a verdict on the attempted murder charge even after finding he was in possession of a firearm. As for the instructions, trial counsel may have felt the

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