Raheem Brown v. United States

Is a criminal defendant’s Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to testify and to receive a fair trial abridged where trial counsel announces to the jury in opening remarks that defendant might testify, and then interferes with that right by not informing defendant that it was his constitutional right [decision] whether or not to testify, then refused to allow defendant to testify despite defendant’s wishes, and then informing the jury in closing arguments that the defendant did not testify because “to put a less than highly educated young man against [the prosecutor], I was not going to do that?”