JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents several issues concerning a criminal defendant's constitutional right to testify at his trial, issues that arise in a case where a defendant does not testify. The specific issues are (1) whether the decision to testify is ultimately for the defendant or for trial counsel to make; (2) if the right to testify is "personal" to the defendant in the sense that only the defendant may validly relinquish it, whether...
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