Government of the Virgin Islands v. Forte, Frederick

How courts have described this case

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• \there is no general duty on the part of defense counsel to anticipate changes in the law\
• counsel's failure to raise Batson claim was ineffective only because defendant asked him to object in light of fact that Batson was pending
• counsel's failure to raise Batson claim was ineffective only because defendant asked him to object in light of fact that Batson was pending
• “Only in a rare case” can an attorney’s failure to make an objection which would not succeed under existing law “be considered unreasonable”
• \[W]e will not read Batson to make a distinction between white and black defendants.\
• “Batson equal protection analysis was not triggered [on direct appeal] because Forte had failed to preserve his objections and because we did not find plain error in the trial proceedings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).