assistance); Middleton, 849 F.2d at 493-95 (counsel’s failure to uncover mitigating evidence of mental illness, physical and sexual child abuse, and drug abuse chronicled in psychiatric, family court, youth services, and prison records, fell outside scope of professionally competent assistance). Rodriguez faults trial counsel for failing to discover mitigating evidence which Rodriguez declined to divulge prior to the penalty phase. Trial counsel’s alleged failure to investigate or present mitigating evidence does not constitute ineffective assistance “when the essential and foundational information required to trigger such an investigation is withheld from the defendant’s attorney by the defendant himself.” Miller, 907 F.2d at 999; see Dooley v. Petsock, 816 F.2d 885, 890-91 (3d Cir.) (<HOLDING>), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 863, 108 S.Ct. 182, 98
holding that where trial counsel was not ineffective appellate counsel was not ineffective for failing to raise claim of ineffectiveness of trial counsel holding that trial counsel cannot be held ineffective for failing to anticipate changes in law holding that counsel cannot be deemed ineffective for failing to raise a meritless claim holding that trial counsel cannot be ineffective for failing to raise claims to which his client has neglected to supply the essential underlying facts  clairvoyance is not required of counsel holding that counsel cannot be deemed ineffective for failing to pursue a meritless claim