Kontakis v. Morton

How courts have described this case

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• advice of counsel not to testify is type of tactical decision that cannot form basis of claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
• abuse of writ in belated raising of new theory of claim on basis of recent scientific knowledge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).