Stewart v. State

This petition asserts that defense counsel did not interview any of the witnesses for the defense or the state and failed to interview Stewart’s brothers who would have testified that Stewart was with them at the time of the burglary; that counsel failed to move to suppress an oral confession and failed to file a discovery motion to obtain statements given to the police. The petition alleged that members of Stewart’s family and “hospital personnel” could have testified that Stewart’s injuries were more consistent with “a car injury” than might have been incurred in a burglary.

The trial court…