Patrick Bernard Giles v. State of Mississippi

KITCHENS, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. A Leake County jury found 'Patrick Bernard Giles guilty of statutory rape and sexual battery. The Circuit Court of Leake County sentenced Giles to ten years for statutory rape and twenty-five years for sexual battery, to run consecutively. Here, Giles argues that he is entitled to a new trial because he received ineffective assistance of counsel and the prosecutor made improper closing arguments.

¶ 2. Because several of Giles’s ineffective assistance of counsel claims are not based on facts fully apparent from the record, this Court dismisses these claims…