The following excerpt is from Fuentes-Jardon v. United States, CASE NO. 12-CR-1564-BEN-1, CASE NO. 12-CV-2443-BEN (S.D. Cal. 2014):
raise a meritless objection. See Gonzalez v. Knowles, 515 F.3d 1006, 1017 (9th Cir. 2008) (trial counsel is not ineffective for failing to raise a meritless objection).
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