· 8/3/2005
United States v. Dennis Wellington
Citations
- 417 F.3d 284
- 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 16086
- 2005 WL 1840043
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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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