Supreme Court of Connecticut· 3/11/1986

State v. Davis

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199 Conn. 88
506 A.2d 86
1986 Conn. LEXIS 741

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holding that counsel's refusal to call a witness, that his client had instructed him to call did not violate defendant's right to compulsory process
holding that counsel's refusal to call a witness that his client had instructed him to call did not violate defendant's right to compulsory process
holding that counsel’s refusal to call a witness that his client had instructed him to call did not violate defendant’s right to compulsory process
holding that counsel's refusal to call a witness that his client had instructed him to call did not violate defendant's right to compulsory process
as early as 1818 ‘the advice and services of counsel were regarded as crucial to a criminal defendant’ in this state
\It has been generally recognized that decisions concerning . . . such inherently personal rights of fundamental importance to the defendant as those referred to in Jones and Wainwright\ rest with the defendant

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