Wickliffe v. State

DICKSON, Justice.

Following a jury trial, petitioner Lonnie Wickliffe was originally convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. This Court affirmed that convietion on direct appeal. Wickliffe v. State (1981), Ind., 424 N.E.2d 1007. In this appeal from the trial court's denial of his petition for post-conviction relief, petitioner raises three issues, restated as follows: 1) effective assistance of trial counsel; 2) waiver of issues concerning alleged prose-cutorial and judicial misconduct; and 3) effective assistance of appellate counsel.

When appealing from the denial…