LANE

v.

PUCCI ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (18 total)

• Wright v. Estelle, 572 F.2d 1071 (5th Cir. 1978)
  …counsel to make a strategic or tactical decision and have concluded that counsel’s limitation of the defendant’s right to testify was not ineffective counsel in the constitutional sense. E. g., Sims v. Lane, 411 F. 2d 661 (CA7, 1969), cert. denied, 396 U.S. 943, 90 S.Ct. 378, 24 L.Ed.2d 244 (1969); V. S. v. Garguilo, 324 F. 2d 795 (CA2, 1963); Newsom v. Smyth, 261 [*1077] F. 2d 452 (CA4, 1958), cert. denied, 359 U.S. 969, 79 S.Ct. 883, 3 L.Ed.2d 837 (1959); Hayes v. Russell, 405 F. 2d 859 (CA6, 1969). None…
• United States v. Ives, 504 F.2d 935 (9th Cir. 1974)
  …844, 846 (9th Cir. 1955), aff’d in part, rev’d in part, 355 U.S. 66, 78 S.Ct. 128, 2 L.Ed.2d 95 (1957). . Harris v. New York, 401 U.S. 222, 225, 91 S.Ct. 643, 28 L.Ed.2d 1 (1971) (dictum) ; Sims v. Lane, 411 F. 2d 661, 664 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 396 U.S. 943, 90 S.Ct. 378, 24 L.Ed.2d 244 (1969) ; Yates v. United States, 227 F. 2d 844, 846 (9th Cir. 1955), aff’d in part, rev’d in part, 355 U.S. 66, 78 S.Ct. 128, 2 L.Ed.2d 95 (1957) ; United States v. Bentvena, 319 F. 2d 916, 943 (2d Cir.), cert. denied,…
• Alicea v. Gagnon, 675 F.2d 913 (7th Cir. 1982)
  …undamental constitutional right status. In any event, read together these statements seem to take for granted the constitutional basis of the right to testify.15 [*922] In contrast, this Court in Sims v. Lane, 411 F. 2d 661 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 396 U.S. 943, 90 S.Ct. 378, 24 L.Ed.2d 244 (1969), expressed the view that “[i]n the federal courts, the privilege of an accused to testify in his own defense is merely statutory, abrogating the common law rule of incompetence.” Id. at 664. Our reluctance to r…