People v. Gandiaga

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that defendant failed to carry their burden of proof on ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim where trial counsel could not specifically recall discussing plea offer with defendant but felt certain they had done so
• applying the same standard when considering the cumulative impact of multiple alleged ineffective assistance of counsel claims
• “The 15 [postconviction] court determines the weight and credibility to be given the testimony of witnesses in a Crim. P. 35(c) hearing.”
• “[P]rejudice may result from the cumulative impact of multiple attorney errors . . . .”
• the constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel is not a guarantee against strategic mistakes or a critique of couns el’s judgment using the benefit of hindsight
• “It is the appellant’s duty to provide those portions of the record necessary to substantiate the claims of error on appeal. Absent such a record, we must presume that the trial court’s ruling was correct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).