Van Pelt v. DiCosimo

How courts have described this case

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• finding that counsel’s concession on drug distribution charges was reasonable trial strategy in light of counsel’s vigorous contest of more serious conspiracy and continuing criminal enterprise charges
• “[W]hen the admissions concern only some of the charges to be proven, or when they do not actually concede guilt, counsel’s concessions have been treated as tactical retreats and deemed to be effective assistance.”
• “[W]hen the admissions concern only some of the charges to be proven, or when they do not actually concede guilt, counsel’s concessions have been treated as tactical retreats and deemed to be effective assistance.”
• “We do not approve of a defense counsel’s deliberate, explicit admission that a jury should find his client guilty of a charge in the absence of any suggestion that the defendant concurred in the decision to proceed in such a manner.”

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