What is the impact of tactical error on witness testimony?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Zwick, G047104 (Cal. App. 2013):
witnesses falls with the range of tactical decisions, and rarely implicates ineffective assistance of counsel. (People v. McDermott (2002) 28 Cal.4th 946, 993.) This is not one of those rare cases where counsel's tactical decisions caused reversible error.
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