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Summary. Sentencing law and sentencing decision making
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The legal standards for reviewing claims of ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing are underdeveloped. In other contexts, defendants seeking to prove ineffective assistance must demonstrate that counsel’s performance fell below appropriate professional standards and that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s deficient performance, the result of the proceeding would ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Law and Contemporary Problems
سال: 1958
ISSN: 0023-9186
DOI: 10.2307/1190229