Arthur Charles Elzy, Jr. v. United States

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• recognizing that generally, when a defendant fails to raise an issue at sentencing or on direct appeal, that issue is procedurally defaulted.
• holding as “wholly insufficient” the “conclusory statement” that “counsel’s failure to raise the issue either at sentencing or on direct appeal constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel”
• “[W]e are not required to review the merits of defaulted claims simply because the Government has failed to raise the issue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).