Opinion ID: 1293219
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Counsel's Competence

Text: (47) Defense counsel failed to object to, or to request an admonition regarding, many of the foregoing claims of prosecutorial error. (See People v. Green (1980) 27 Cal.3d 1, 27 [164 Cal. Rptr. 1, 609 P.2d 468].) Defendant now asserts trial counsel's failure to object to the argument indicated trial counsel's incompetence. We have previously held, however, that mere failure to object to argument seldom establishes counsel's incompetence. ( Ghent, supra, 43 Cal.3d 739, 772; People v. Frierson, supra, 25 Cal.3d 142, 158.) Here, we find the above instances of prosecutorial argument, to the extent they involved any error, establish neither unreasonable performance on the part of trial counsel, nor do they establish prejudice. We thus reject the claim of ineffective trial counsel.