OPINION OF THE COURT Chief Judge Cooke. An attorney who presents a well-grounded but unsuccessful defense will not later be held to have provided ineffective assistance of counsel, and thus a defendant will not be entitled to a vacatur of his conviction on such basis. Joseph Baldi was convicted after separate trials for unrelated crimes committed nine months apart. The first judgment, entered Novemb…
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