3.3, so it is not deficient for them to refrain from doing so. Mickey also argues that counsel should have deployed the penalty phase experts in surrebuttal of the prosecution’s expert. But such testimony might not even have been allowed by the trial judge. People v. Lamb, 136 Cal.App.4th 575, 40 Cal.Rptr.3d 609, 614 (2006). And it is not deficient to refuse to join a battle royale of experts. Hendricks, 70 F.3d at 1037 (citing Harris v. Vasquez, 949 F.2d 1497, 1525 (9th Cir.1990)) (“[E]ven where there is a strong basis for a mental defense ... an attorney may forego that defense where the attorney’s experts would be subject to cross-examination based on equally persuasive psychiatric opinions that reach a different conclusion.”); see Williams v. Woodford, 384 F.3d 567 (9th Cir.2004) (<HOLDING>). It was reasonable for counsel to conclude
holding that court may refuse leave to amend because of undue delay holding that defense counsels decision not to call defendant to the stand despite defendants repeatedly expressed desire to testify on his own behalf was not ineffective assistance of counsel but was a reasonable tactical decision by counsel not to subject defendant to all of the risk attendant on crossexamination holding that defense counsel may call attention to the states failure to produce evidence holding that limitation on scope and breadth of crossexamination did not significantly curtail effectiveness of witness crossexamination because crossexamination was lengthy and extensive holding that counsel may refuse to call experts because of their weakness on crossexamination