Vargas, Victor James

How courts have described this case

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• “[H]ad appellate counsel proffered the arguments under Pakulski, defendant would have secured a new trial upon simply demonstrating that the acting in concert instruction was given in error.”
• “[H]ad appellate counsel proffered the arguments under Pakulski, defendant would have secured a new trial upon simply demonstrating that the acting in concert instruction was given in error.”
• “Where a defendant’s appellate counsel fails to raise an argument on appeal, that argument is deemed abandoned, as it is not the job of this Court to make a defendant’s argument for him.” (internal quotation marks, citation, and brackets omitted)
• “Where a defendant’s appellate counsel fails to raise an argument on appeal, that argument is deemed abandoned, as it is not the job of this Court to make a defendant’s argument for him.” (internal quotation marks, citation, and brackets omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).