JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. of the Estate of Lerner

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• recognizing that Lott “mandates consideration of both the vol-untariness of any waiver as well as the reasonableness of counsel’s advice not to testify”
• “In addition, we have found that where the defendant’s proposed testimony was the only evidence establishing a legally-recognized defense to his charges, counsel was deficient in advising silence instead of the defendant testifying as to that defense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).