Toole v. State

OPINION

The petitioner, James Toole (Toole), appeals from the Superior Court’s denial of his application for post-conviction relief. After his conviction on three counts of first-degree sexual assault upon a child under the age of thirteen and on two counts of first-degree sexual assault by force and coercion, the court sentenced Toole to five concurrent life sentences. 1 Toole contends that his convictions should be overturned because the Public Defender’s Office (PD) had a conflict of interest in representing him and because his PD attorney provided constitutionally ineffective legal…