Is ineffective assistance of counsel ineffective on the grounds that the trial attorney failed to object to the insufficiency of admonitions?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Heishman, 246 Cal.Rptr. 673, 45 Cal.3d 147, 753 P.2d 629 (Cal. 1988):
Defendant claims ineffective assistance of counsel based on his trial attorney's failure to object to the insufficiency of the admonitions, but the absence of prejudice from the outcome precludes reversal on that ground. (People v. Fosselman (1983) 33 Cal.3d 572, 584, 189 Cal.Rptr. 855, 659 P.2d 1144.)
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