Bashor v. Risley

rejecting ineffective assistance claim where counsel made a tactical decision not to offer negligent homicide defense because he wanted to leave the jury with “the choice of findpng] [defendant] guilty of deliberate homicide or acquitting him outright” | “extensive knowledge within the community of the crime or of the defendant is not sufficient to render the trial presumptively unfair” | no constitutional violation in excluding evidence that another man was seen near scene and that he had history of sexual attacks where identification of petitioner was strong