Williams v. State

HAROLD L. LOWENSTEIN, Judge.

Factual Background:

The issue underlying this case is whether the failure of trial counsel to prove the defendant’s indigency and his subsequent inability to seek the opinion of a psychiatric expert as to defendant’s mental health entitled the defendant to post-conviction relief. Cornelle Williams was tried by jury and convicted of second-degree murder, assault in the first degree, and armed criminal action with respect to events that occurred on February 24, 2001. In November of 2002, the court sentenced him to terms totaling seventy years imprisonment. After…