Lueptow v. State

OPINION

SUMMERS, Judge.

Appellant Tim Roger Lueptow pled guilty to one count of using a minor for obscene purposes. The Madison County Circuit Court sentenced Lueptow to nine years in the Department of Correction. He filed a petition for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel. The trial court dismissed Lueptow’s petition and he has appealed.

The determinative issue on appeal is whether the failure of Lueptow’s attorney to challenge the validity of certain search war*831rants was ineffective assistance of counsel. We conclude that it was and respectfully reverse the…