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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Palafox finds a lower court ruled correctly when it convicted defendant of sexually abusing his daughter. Defendant argued that he had received ineffective counsel, but for the most part the record of this case is not “sufficiently developed to overcome the presumption of reasonable assistance,” and in a specific case where he argued his attorney had failed to object to inadmissible testimony, the testimony was in fact allowable and therefore “objections would have been futile.” Affirmed.
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