Pledger v. Boyd

How courts have described this case

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• where child was reluctant to testify at trial about father’s molestation of her, child’s prior written statement to the police detailing molestation was admissible at trial
• futile objection cannot support a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel
• futile objection cannot support a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel
• “If a crime may be committed in more than one way, it is sufficient for the [Sjtate to show that it was committed in any one of the separate ways listed in the indictment, even if the indictment uses the conjunctive rather than disjunctive form.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).