What constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Acero, B278213 (Cal. App. 2018):
Defendant lastly asserts that any omissions by his trial counsel that precluded us from reaching the merits of his claims on appeal constitutes the ineffective assistance of counsel. Because we have reached and rejected the merits of each of defendant's claims, any failure to raise those claims was neither deficient performance nor prejudicial. (See Strickland v. Washington (1984) 466 U.S. 668.)
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The judgment is affirmed.
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