Court of Appeals of Washington· 1/13/2011

State v. Brown

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245 P.3d 776

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“[T]rial counsel’s failure to advise his client of pending cases during the plea bargaining process cannot constitute ineffective assistance.”
the Gant decision “announced a new rule limiting the exception to the warrant requirement for searches incident to arrest
counsel has no duty to pursue novel legal theories, no duty to pursue strategies that appear unlikely to succeed, and no duty to anticipate changes in the law
Defense counsel has “no duty to pursue strategies that reasonably appear unlikely to succeed.”
“an attorney’s failure to raise novel legal theories or arguments is not ineffective assistance.”
counsel has no duty to pursue strategies that reasonably appear unlikely to succeed

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Judges: Siddoway

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