Defense counsels concession of a defendants guilt without defendants consent is not presumptively prejudicial. Prejudice must be proved under Strickland v. Washington (1984) 466 U.S. 668, rather than presumed under United States v. Cronic (1984) 466 U.S. 648, where counsels concession was part of a trial strategy to make his challenge to other charges more credible.
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