Lamarca v. State

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• reasonable trial strategy for counsel not to call people who were not credible and would not have made good defense witnesses
• reasonable trial strategy for counsel not to call persons who were not credible and would not have made good defense witnesses
• \We have long recognized that strategic decisions by trial counsel are `virtually unchallengeable.'\ (quoting Downs v. State, 453 So.2d 1102, 1108 (Fla.1984))
• “Lamarca represented himself during the penalty phase; therefore, he cannot claim his trial counsel was deficient for decisions he made in conducting his defense during this phase.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).