State v. Polly

How courts have described this case

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• holding that confessions must be corroborated by independent evidence, but that independent evidence need not go to every element of the crime
• holding that the defendant’s ineffective- 30 assistance-of-counsel claim failed because “[t]rial counsel’s decision not to call [the defendant] to testify clearly was a strategical decision we will not second-guess”
• noting failure to prove either element by a preponderance of the evidence is fatal to a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
• noting failure to 7 prove either element by a preponderance of the evidence is fatal to the claim
• noting failure to prove either element by a preponderance of the evidence is fatal to a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
• “Trial counsel’s decision not to call [the defendant] to testify clearly was a strategical decision we will not second-guess.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).