United States v. Francis Ditommaso A/K/A \Checco\, Rudolfo Risatti, A/K/A \Rudy\, Sheila Silvetti, Victoriano Molina-Chacon

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• holding that judge’s reprimand of counsel “furnishes no basis for reversal if made outside of the jury's presence” even if unwarranted
• stating that review of lawyer’s advocacy is deferential to the lawyer’s perspective at the time
• stating that the “benchmark for judging any such claim of ineffectiveness must be whether counsel’s conduct so undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process that the trial cannot be relied on as having produced a just result”
• stating that the \benchmark for judging any such claim of ineffectiveness must be whether counsel's conduct so undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process that the trial cannot be relied on as having produced a just result\
• reviewing courts are “not [to] second-guess trial counsel’s defense strategy simply because the chosen strategy has failed”
• “[S]leeping counsel is tantamount to no counsel at all . . . .”

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