What is the burden of proving professional assistance?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Lopez v. United States, CASE NO. 1:12-CR-00282-AWI-BAM (E.D. Cal. 2015):
professional assistance. The [petitioner] bears the burden of showing 'that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the 'counsel' guaranteed [petitioner] by the Sixth Amendment.'" Gonzalez v. Wong, 667 F.3d 965, 987 (9th Cir. 2011).
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