Cole v. State

OPINION

STEWART, Judge.

A jury found Joseph Jorge Cole guilty of first-degree murder.1 The superior court imposed a 65-year sentence with 20 years suspended. We upheld Cole's conviction on direct appeal.2 Cole pursued an application for post-conviction relief, claiming that his trial attorney was incompetent in two ways: first, because she did not retain a forensic pathologist to present evidence on the cause of the victim's death, and second, because she *323did not advise him concerning the potential difference in his parole eligibility if he was convicted of first-degree murder instead of…