The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Martinez, 883 F.2d 750 (9th Cir. 1989):
The leading case on the issue presented here is Wright v. Estelle, 572 F.2d 1071 (5th Cir.) (en banc), cert. denied 439 U.S. 1004, 99 S.Ct. 617, 58 L.Ed.2d 680 (1978). A majority of the court in that case took the position that counsel's overriding of his
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