{"id":47375,"date":"2021-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47375"},"modified":"2021-02-20T12:25:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T17:25:10","slug":"n-d-tex-def-counsel-wasnt-obliged-to-argue-a-franks-issue-to-the-jury-at-trial-thats-presumptively-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47375","title":{"rendered":"N.D.Tex.: Def counsel wasn&#8217;t obliged to argue a <em>Franks<\/em> issue to the jury at trial; that&#8217;s presumptively strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defense counsel wasn\u2019t obliged to raise a Franks issue in closing argument. That\u2019s quintessentially a strategic decision. \u201cThe Supreme Court has recognized that \u2018judicious selection of arguments for summation is a core exercise of defense counsel&#8217;s discretion,\u2019 and counsel \u2018is not required to summarize or comment upon all the facts, opinions, inferences, and law involved in a case.\u2019 Yarborough, 540 U.S. at 8 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). Movant has failed to rebut the strong presumption that counsel&#8217;s decision not to revisit these events in his closing statements was done \u2018for tactical reasons rather than through sheer neglect.\u2019 Id. (citing Strickland, 466 U.S. at 690).\u201d Minor v. United States, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31287 (N.D. Tex. Jan. 21, 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense counsel wasn\u2019t obliged to raise a Franks issue in closing argument. That\u2019s quintessentially a strategic decision. \u201cThe Supreme Court has recognized that \u2018judicious selection of arguments for summation is a core exercise of defense counsel&#8217;s discretion,\u2019 and counsel \u2018is &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47375\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine","category-ineffective-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47376,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47375\/revisions\/47376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}