Fair v. Warden

The principal issue in this appeal is whether the petitioner has established that his conviction of the crime of first degree robbery should be overturned because of ineffective assistance of counsel. A jury found the petitioner, Harvey K. Fair, guilty of first degree robbery, in violation of General Statutes §§ 53a-8 and 53a-134 (a) (3),1 and of escape from cus*400tody, in violation of General Statutes § 53a-171.* 2 The trial court imposed on the petitioner an effective sentence of twenty years imprisonment, suspended after fifteen years and three years probation. He then brought a petition in…