Defense counsel did not render ineffective assistance when he declined to assert the affirmative defense of mental disease or defect in the face of defendant's opposition to presenting that defense, and the court correctly agreed that this decision was for defendant, not counsel, to make. A defendant retains ultimate authority to decide whether to assert an insanity defense, like the closely related defense of extreme emotional
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