Radmer v. State

CYNTHIA L. MARTIN, Judge.

The State appeals from the motion court’s grant of Skylor Radmer’s (“Rad-mer”) Rule 29.15 motion based on the ineffective assistance of counsel he received during the sentencing phase of his bifurcated trial. The State claims that defense counsel’s failure to call a psychologist to testify about Radmer’s mental disability in the sentencing phase did not rise to the level of ineffective assistance of counsel. We affirm.

Factual and Procedural History 1

Radmer was first charged with statutory rape and statutory sodomy in 2003. Bert Godding (“Godding”) represented Radmer…