People v. Odle

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant is entitled to competent, not perfect, counsel
• holding that a defendant is entitled to competent, not perfect counsel
• finding there was no reason to believe a plea agreement could have been reached with the prosecution given the overwhelming evidence of the defendant’s guilt
• looking at the defendant’s statement in allocution in determining whether his trial counsel’s conduct amounted to ineffective assistance of counsel
• defendant’s claim of ineffective assistance for counsel’s failure to seek plea agreement rejected where given defendant’s overwhelming guilt there was no reason to believe agreement could have been reached with the prosecution
• a defense strategy is not constitutionally defective if unsuccessful

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).