State v. McPhillips

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the defendant “has the burden to prove” “counsel failed in an essential duty, and . . . prejudice resulted from counsel’s error”
• counsel not ineffective for failing to raise objection without merit
• looking to precedent “interpreting identical language in a similar statute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).