California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Harris, F071077 (Cal. App. 2017):
As we have pointed out, defendant does not argue that the pattern insanity instruction was inadequate or cite to any authority for the proposition that further instruction on self-defense was required during the sanity phase, and the decision in Leeds, which defendant relies on for both his instructional error claim and his ineffective assistance of counsel claim, is distinguishable. We conclude defendant "fails to show that there could be no conceivable reason for trial counsel not to request such a clarifying instruction." (People v. Nguyen (2015) 61 Cal.4th 1015, 1051-1052.)
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