MORSE, Justice.
This case presents the issue whether a criminal defense lawyer renders ineffective assistance of counsel by requesting at the client's insistence that the court not instruct the jury that attempted manslaughter is a lesser included offense of attempted murder. We hold defendant's counsel represented defendant properly and affirm.
Defendant was convicted in 1984 of attempted first degree murder in violation of 13 V.S.A. § 2301 after...
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