U.S. v. Day, No. 00-56525 (9th Cir.) (285 F.3d 1167) (April 10, 2002) (Judge Alfred T. Goodwin)
Here, in a claim for denial of effective assistance of counsel, the Ninth Circuit held that the district court had erred in concluding that the defendant could not show prejudice by counsel's advice to forfeit sentence reduction in exchange for acceptance of responsibility; reversed and remanded for determination under Strickland ...
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