Tracey Barros v. State of Rhode Island

Justice Robinson, for the Court.

The petitioner, Tracey Barros, appeals from the May 20, 2015 judgment entered in accordance with a May 18, 2015 written decision of a justice 1 in Providence County Superior Court denying his application for postconviction relief. He contends on appeal that "indigent funding ought to have been provided, in the post conviction proceeding, to hire the proposed expert witness to demonstrate the availability of the issue of false confession and to establish trial counsel's ineffectiveness in failing to utilize the available defense at trial." It is further his…