Greene v. State

HARDBERGER, Justice.

This case involves a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. When evaluat- mg such an appellate point, we should examine counsel’s performance in its totality. Few lawyers turn in a perfect performance in a trial — it is simply too complex a task for perfection. Still there are minimum standards of advocacy that cannot be trespassed without undermining the confidence in the conviction. When this occurs, it violates the Sixth Amendment Constitutional guarantees of effective counsel. In this case, among many errors, the defense counsel intentionally impeached his own…