Leal v. Rodriguez

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• concluding that counsel did not render ineffective assistance by failing to call mother’s boyfriend, who had long criminal record, to testify
• holding that because ICWA preempts state waiver principles, “[a] complaint alleging a failure to follow the ICWA may be raised for the first time on appeal”

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