McGriff v. Dept. of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting a claim that trial counsel prevented the defendant from testifying after the district court had conducted two evidentiary hearings on the issue
• affirming district court’s finding that defendant was informed of his right to testify based on attorney’s testimony that “her ordinary practice was to advise her clients as to the consequences of testifying, and she never prevented clients from taking the stand”
• “Absent evidence of clear error, we consider ourselves bound by a district court’s findings of fact and credibility determinations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).