What right-to-counsel standard holds that only lawyers whose behavior is so shocking that it turns the trial into a joke are constitutionally ineffective?

a. the authorized-imprisonment standard
b. the bind-over standard
c. the reasonably-competent-attorney standard
d. the mockery-of-justice standard


d

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