Adetokunbo Adejumo v. United States

STRAS, Circuit Judge.

Adetokunbo Olubunmi Adejumo moved under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to vacate his sentence for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. His theory was that his counsel was ineffective by failing to do two things that a reasonable attorney would have done: advise him of the consequences of testifying at a pretrial-release revocation hearing and object to the amount of loss suffered by the victims of the fraud. The district court 1 denied both claims without holding an evidentiary hearing. We affirm.

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Adejumo, as well as several accomplices, devised a scheme to use stolen identity…