In Sharp v. State, 837 P.2d 718, 722 (Alaska App. 1992) the Court explained that "claims of ineffective assistance can rarely be determined from the trial record alone because a defense attorney's trial decisions -- including which potential defenses to pursue, whether to object to the evidence offered by the government, how to cross-examine government witnesses, and whether and how to present a defense case -- generally rest on considerations of strategy and trial tactics that are not directly addressed in open court." (Sharp, 837 P.2d 718, 722)