United States v. Loumard Harris

How courts have described this case

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• outlining factors to consider when deciding whether denial of a motion for substitute counsel is an abuse of discretion
• finding no ineffective assistance where trial counsel “[p]erhaps . . . did not want to dwell on a witness who brought forward . . . damning [evidence]”
• finding that arguments not raised on appeal are waived
• detailing difficulties attendant ineffective-assistance claims raised on direct appeal and reiterating that “only the most patently egregious of ineffective assistance claims are appropri- ately brought on direct appeal”
• compiling cases with warnings against pursuing inef- fective assistance claims during direct appeal
• explaining why ineffective-assistance claims should rarely be brought on direct appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).