Boyle v. McKune

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• holding that defense counsel’s failure to call a medical expert to refute the prosecution’s theory did not prejudice the defendant
• holding that the petitioner had not shown prejudice from counsel’s failure to call expert witnesses when the petitioner had not identified helpful testimony that the witnesses would have provided
• concluding that, even assuming counsel was deficient in failing to call medical expert witness, petitioner had not shown prejudice because of highly speculative nature of what testimony expert witness would provide the defense and weight of evidence against him
• concluding that, even assuming counsel was deficient in failing to call medical expert witness, petitioner had not shown prejudice because of highly speculative nature of what testimony expert witness would provide the defense and weight of evidence against him
• explaining that “the decision of which witnesses to call is quintessentially a matter of trial strategy for the trial attorney.”
• finding that “the decision of which witnesses to call is quintessentially a matter of strategy for the trial attorney”

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