U.S. v. Martinez, No. 97-20443 (5th Cir.) (181 F.3d 627) (July 15, 1999) (Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham)
Loaded on Aug. 1, 1999
published in Punch and Jurists
August 30, 1999
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Strickland Standard.
Here the Court vacated a conviction because the district court rejected the defendant's vague statement that he had been improperly denied the right to testify on his own behalf without giving him a chance to state the claim with greater specificity.
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