Delahunt v. State

OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying postconviction relief sought on the basis of the defendant’s claim that he was denied effective assistance of counsel in violation of his Sixth Amendment constitutional right to counsel and his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process.

On June 4, 1976, a Superior Court jury convicted defendant Raymond W. Delahunt, of assault with intent to rob. He received a ten-year sentence, to be served at the Adult Correctional Institutions. Such sentence was to run consecutively with a three-year term Delahunt was serving for…