United States v. Robert Earl Curtis

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• Holding that when defendant persisted in desire to testify, but planned to offer perjured testimony, defendant’s right to testify was not violated when attorney failed to allow him to take the stand.
• Holding that when defendant persisted in desire to testify, but planned to offer perjured testimony, defendant's right to testify was not violated when attorney failed to allow him to take the stand.
• noting defendant abandoned ineffective assistance claim because a strategic choice is \virtually unassailable.\
• Defendant has constitutional right to testify which cannot be waived by counsel as a matter of trial strategy. Defendant’s constitutional rights were not violated, however, when counsel refused to put him on the stand because of intended perjury
• counsel cannot waive defendant's right to testify as a matter of trial strategy
• although counsel, as matter of trial strategy, may not waive defendant’s personal constitutional right to testify truthfully, defendant has no constitutional right to testify falsely and thus counsel was not ineffective for refusing to allow defendant to take stand to testify falsely

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