Wallace v. Parent

How courts have described this case

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• \Those claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel raised in Brownfield's petition but not pursued on appeal are deemed abandoned and will not be considered by this Court.\
• \That counsel did not question half of the venire about whether anyone had been a crime victim strongly indicates that counsel did not believe that being a crime victim was a material consideration.\
• \That counsel did not question half of the venire about whether anyone had been a crime victim strongly indicates that counsel did not believe that being a crime victim was a material consideration.\
• '[I]f an attorney is aware of a line of defense and makes a conscious decision to reject it, rather than failing to raise it simply because he was unaware that it existed, it is more likely that the failure to raise the defense was reasonable.'

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