What is the effect of sentencing counsel's tactical decision to refrain from making a sentencing objection?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Nunnery, 2d Crim. No. B285011 (Cal. App. 2018):
the imposition of consecutive 25-year-to-life terms. We will not second-guess trial counsel's tactical decision to refrain from making a sentencing objection, particularly where it is evident from the face of the record that any objection would have been futile. (People v. Kelly (1992) 1 Cal.4th 495, 520.)
The judgment is affirmed.
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