State v. Francis

CRICHTON, J.,

additionally concurs and assigns reasons:

hi agree with this Court’s grant in part and remand order for the trial court to conduct an evidentiary hearing on relator’s claim of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. On direct review, the appellate court affirmed relator’s conviction for manslaughter and sentence of twenty-five years imprisonment at hard labor. State v. Francis, 2011-1082 (La. App. 4 Cir. 11/7/12), 2012 WL 6619022 (unpub’d). To that court, appellate counsel had raised two assignments of error regarding character evidence and authenticity of evidence.1 Now, on…