Is there any case law where a defendant's claim that his counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to object to the prosecutor's statements concerning his right to assert self-defense fails?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Duft, B265145 (Cal. App. 2017):

Accordingly, Duft Jr.'s claim his counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to object to the prosecutor's statements concerning his right to assert self-defense fails. (See People v. Huggins (2006) 38 Cal.4th 175, 207 ["It is not . . . misconduct to ask the jury to believe the prosecution's version of events as drawn from the evidence. Closing argument in a criminal trial is nothing more than a request, albeit usually lengthy and presented in narrative form, to believe each party's interpretation, proved or logically inferred from the evidence, of the events that led to the trial. It is not misconduct for a party to make explicit what is implicit in every closing argument, and that is essentially what the prosecutor did here. Thus, counsel were not ineffective for failing to object to the comment."].)

ii. The prosecutor's statements regarding malice

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