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· 8/3/2005

United States v. Dennis Wellington

Citations

  • 417 F.3d 284
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 16086
  • 2005 WL 1840043

How courts have described this case

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  • noting this Court’s “baseline aversion to resolving ineffectiveness claims on direct review” (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • “[T]o the extent that defendant instructed his counsel to pursue a course of action that defendant now complains of, there was no abridgement—constructive or otherwise—of defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel.”

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Judges: Oakes, Cabranes, Goldberg

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