Michael Earl Sexton v. James B. French, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina

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• explaining that Lockhart requires an ineffectiveness claimant to demonstrate that his trial was \fundamentally unfair or unreliable\ in order to satisfy the Strickland prejudice prong
• explaining decisions of “trial strategy and tactics” including “what stipulations should be made” are left to counsel
• whether to file a motion to suppress “is a classic tactical decision” for which consent from the defendant was not required
• whether to file a motion to suppress \is a classic tactical decision\ for which consent from the defendant was not required
• defendant's claim that \trial counsel failed to inform him of his right to testify or ... forced him to testify must satisfy the two-prong test established in Strickland\
• trial counsel has burden of informing defendant of nature and existence of right

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