United States v. Christopher M. Hodges

How courts have described this case

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• “In addition to presenting no credible evidence to support his [ineffective assistance] allegations, the record contradicts [the defendant] at almost every turn.”
• “An ineffective assistance of counsel claim cannot stand on a blank record, peppered with the defendant's own unsupported allegations of misconduct.”
• “An ineffective assistance of counsel claim cannot stand on a blank record, peppered with the defendant's own unsupported allegations of misconduct.”
• “An ineffective assistance of counsel claim cannot stand on a blank record, peppered with the defendant’s own unsupported allegations of misconduct.”
• “[A]bsent particular facts that would suggest otherwise, the decision of whether to attend [a PSR interview] is better left to the discretion of the attorney.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).