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· 2/18/1981

Ronald Drake v. Donald W. Wyrick, Warden

Citations

  • 640 F.2d 912
  • 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 20093

How courts have described this case

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  • trial attorney’s advice that the defendant should not testify due, in part, to prior convictions was a matter of trial strategy and not a ground for finding ineffective assistance
  • trial attorney’s advice that the defendant should not testify due, in part, to prior convictions was a matter of trial strategy and not a ground for finding ineffective assistance
  • petitioner failed to exhaust claim, where he did not assert claim in his post-conviction motion, raising it for the first time on the appeal of the denial of his post- conviction motion

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Judges: Bright, Gibson, Heaney

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