What is the test for ineffective assistance for counsel's failure to seek suppression of cocaine found during a search?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Perez, E066876 (Cal. App. 2018):
Where, as here, the claim is based on counsel's failure to take a particular action and the record does not demonstrate counsel's reasons, we must reject the claim unless there could be "no satisfactory explanation" for the conduct. (People v. Mendoza Tello (1997) 15 Cal.4th 264, 266 [reversing a holding of ineffective assistance for counsel's failure to seek suppression of cocaine found during a warrantless search because it was
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