California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Qiu, B288609 (Cal. App. 2019):
The general legal principles applicable to this claim of ineffective assistance are the same as those discussed above, including the applicable presumption that defense counsel acted within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance and the burden imposed on defendant to show that there could be no satisfactory explanation for defense counsel's failure to object. (People v. Mai, supra, 57 Cal.4th at p. 1009.) When examining an ineffective assistance claim, we defer to counsel's reasonable tactical decisions (ibid.), including the decision whether to object,
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