MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge. We confront an issue of first impression in this circuit: whether a viable ineffective assistance of counsel claim can arise in the sentencing context; specifically, whether failing to effectively assist a defendant awaiting sentencing in his willing efforts to provide cooperation to an interested government can constitute a Sixth Amendment v…
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