United States v. Patricia Morris

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• indicating that we may address an ineffective assistance claim on direct appeal by (1) declining to hear the claim in favor of a § 2255 petition, (2) remanding to the district court for factfinding, or (3
• rejecting double‐ counting argument because the defendant “offered nothing in the Sentencing Guidelines or relevant statutes reflecting an intent to preclude the double counting the District Court employed”
• noting a “baseline aversion to resolving ineffectiveness claims on direct review” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting our “baseline aversion” to resolving claims of ineffective assistance of counsel on direct review
• explaining that when an ineffective assistance of counsel claim is raised on direct appeal, this Court may, inter alia, 7 “decline to hear the claim, permitting the appellant to raise the issue as part of a subsequent petition for writ of habeas corpus”
• highlighting this Circuit’s “baseline aversion to resolving ineffectiveness claims on direct review”

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