California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Gonzales, C070345 (Cal. App. 2017):
The grounds asserted for a new trial all related to factual matters the trial court had a chance to personally observe. We defer to its determination that even if counsel's asserted errors had not been made, a different result would not have been reasonably likely. (See People v. Daniels (1991) 52 Cal.3d 815, 849 [deference to trial court's conclusions on effectiveness of trial counsel in support of its denial of motion for new trial].) The motion for new trial was properly denied.
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