California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Hutchins, A141037 (Cal. App. 2016):
A defendant claiming ineffective assistance of counsel must establish that counsel's performance fell below an objective standard of reasonableness under prevailing professional norms, and there is a reasonable probability that counsel's ineffective representation had an effect on the judgment. (Strickland v. Washington (1984) 466 U.S. 668, 687-688, 691.) Here, there was no reasonable probability that a
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