Commonwealth v. Bazabe

How courts have described this case

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• indicating an appellant must make an offer of proof as to how he would have testified.
• where issue is whether evidentiary hearing must be held, it is settled law that mere boilerplate allegations will not suffice to require hearing
• a bald allegation that counsel was ineffective for interfering with the defendant’s right to testify at trial does not entitle the defendant to an evidentiary hearing on his petition because “mere boilerplate allegations will not suffice to require a hearing”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).