United States v. Alvin O. Leggett

How courts have described this case

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• holding that counsel’s refusal to present client’s flawed defense “was a reasonable trial strategy, and does not amount to ineffective representation”
• holding that defendant in hybrid representation arrangement does not waive his right to counsel unless he makes “an articulate and unmistakable demand . . . to proceed pro se”
• cross-examination of some witnesses, asking of questions of defense counsel, proposing questions for other witnesses and delivering closing argument did not require the trial court to give waiver warnings
• “[A]n attorney fearing an ineffective assistance of counsel claim has an incentive to do his best, not the contrary.”
• “[W]e are unpersuaded by [the petitioner’s] further attempt to style his disagreement with counsel over trial tactics as a ‘conflict of interest.’”
• “[A]n attorney fearing an ineffective assistance of counsel claim has an incentive to do his best, not the contrary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).