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A defense counsel who refuses to allow her client, asserting self-defense to a murder, to lie about seeing the decedent holding an object that looked like a gun, has fallen below the effective assistance prong of the Strickland effective
 
  assistance of counsel ruling. Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 2

__________ punishment is arguably the most attention-getting form of crime control in the United States today.
 
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Answer to Question 1

FALSE Nix v. Whiteside (1986)

Answer to Question 2

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