California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. See, F066357 (Cal. App. 2015):
To prevail on an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim, defendant must show his trial counsel's performance was deficient and the deficiency caused him prejudice. (People v. Cowan (2010) 50 Cal.4th 401, 493, fn. 31.) An attorney's failure to seek exclusion of admissible evidence does not amount to ineffective assistance. (People v. Berry (1990) 224 Cal.App.3d 162, 170 [where evidence was admissible, "any motion to
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