Farmer v. State

The petition alleging ineffective assistance of appellate counsel is denied on the merits. Petitioner argues that appellate counsel should have argued that the trial court erred in allowing a projector screen to be placed between the defendant and the four-year-old child abuse victim during the child’s testimony at trial.1 See Coy v. Iowa, 487 U.S. 1012, 1021, 108 S.Ct. 2798, 101 L.Ed.2d 857 (1988); McLaughlin v. State, 79 So.3d 226, 228-29 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012); Oliver v. State, 125 So.3d 244 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013), rev. granted, 122 So.3d 869 (Fla.2013); Overholt v. State, 110 So.3d 530, 531…