DocketNumber: No. 2018-KP-0085
Citation Numbers: 263 So. 3d 422
Filed Date: 2/18/2019
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 7/29/2022
Denied. Relator fails to show he received ineffective assistance of counsel under the standard of Strickland v. Washington ,
Relator has now fully litigated his application for post-conviction relief in state court. Similar to federal habeas relief, see
Hughes, J., would grant and assigns reasons.
Hughes, J., dissents and would grant the writ.
In this case a police officer with twenty-two years experience testified before the jury that the victims were telling "one-hundred percent the truth," and a school counselor was accepted as an expert and testified that from her "professional perspective" that she saw nothing "inconsistent" with sexual child abuse. It cannot be said that the jury's verdict was surely attributable to these errors, and they are therefore not harmless.