Devendorf, Clyde Thomas

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• refusing to reach issues of prejudice and remedy when defendant failed to establish that his counsel was \constitutionally ineffective\
• \a court must be acutely aware of the temptation of a defendant to second guess his decision and counsel's advice in light of subsequent adverse events\
• “Judicial pressure to force the prosecutor to drop valid charges is every bit as much a violation of separation of powers as is an outright judicial order that valid charges be dropped.”
• \Judicial pressure to force the prosecutor to drop valid charges is every bit as much a violation of separation of powers as is an outright judicial order that valid charges be dropped.\
• “We do not require attorneys to foretell the future: the attorney’s advice was reasonable, and it did not become incompetent because a subsequent judicial opinion made clear an aspect of the offense that was previously less certain”
• rejection of plea offer based on defective advice

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