of helpful information. Testimony at the evidentiary hearing corroborated Cashman’s concern that Ash-ton would have used the MMPI results to portray Kimbrough in a bad light. The court concluded that counsel’s decision not to call Dr. Mings or Dr. Berland as witnesses was a reasonable trial tactic. We agree with the trial court. Cashman and Sims weighed the mitigation evidence Mings and Berland could have presented against the potential risks of having them testify. The strategic decision Cashman and Sims made not to have Mings and Berland testify at trial was a reasonable trial tactic and did not constitute deficient performance. See Griffin v. State, 866 So.2d 1, 9 (Fla.2003) (citing Ferguson v. State, 593 So.2d 508 (Fla.1992), and State v. Bolender, 503 So.2d 1247, 1250 (Fla.1987) (<HOLDING>)). 2. Failure to Provide Doctors With
holding that the failure to raise a futile issue does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel holding that defendant may raise claim of ineffective assistance of counsel on direct appeal only if ineffective assistance is conclusive from the record holding that counsels strategic decisions were hard to attack holding that there is no ineffective assistance if an attorney makes a strategic choice to pursue one defense and abandons a conflicting defense holding that strategic decisions do not constitute ineffective assistance if alternative courses of action have been considered and rejected