Arizona Supreme Court· 1/31/1989

State v. Valdez

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770 P.2d 313
160 Ariz. 9
27 Ariz. Adv. Rep. 13
1989 Ariz. LEXIS 18

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concluding no fundamental error when prosecutor's improper closing argument reference to defendant seeking a plea agreement was \an isolated evidentiary matter\
knife held to victim’s neck and cut on neck sufficient circumstantial evidence of fear and apprehension
“Defense counsel’s determinations of trial strategy, even if later proven unsuccessful, are not ineffective assistance of counsel.”
“Defense counsel’s determinations of trial strategy, even if later proven unsuccessful, are not ineffective assistance of counsel.”
“Defendant cannot take his chances on a favorable verdict, reserving the ‘hole card’ of a later appeal on an evidentiary matter that was curable at trial, and then seek appellate reversal from an unfavorable verdict.”
implicitly recognizing that every case of prosecutorial misconduct does not warrant bar disciplinary proceedings

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Judges: Feldman, Cameron, Gordon, Moeller, Holohan, Corcoran

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