State v. Mann

State of Maryland v. Christopher Mann, No. 29, September Term, 2019 INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL – PREJUDICE PRONG – PURPORTED ALIBI WITNESSES – Court of Appeals held that petitioner for postconviction relief failed to establish that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance of counsel by not requesting alibi jury instruction, as petitioner had failed to satisfy prejudice prong of test set forth in Strickland v. Washington,

466 U.S. 668

(1984), i.e., burden to prove that there was reasonable probability, or substantial or significant possibility, that jury would have acquitted him…