Jones v. State

HUNSTEIN, Justice.

This Court affirmed appellant Daryl A. Jones’s life sentence for felony murder but remanded the case to the trial court to address appellant’s claim that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. Jones v. State, 276 Ga. 663 (581 SE2d 546) (2003). After a hearing the trial court ruled that appellant was not deprived of the effective assistance of trial counsel. Appellant challenges that ruling on three grounds. Finding no error in the trial court’s ruling, we affirm.

In order to establish that counsel was ineffective, appellant must show both that counsel’s performance…