State v. Joubert

I. INTRODUCTION

Defendant, John J. Joubert, appeals from the denial of the motion he filed pursuant to the Nebraska Postconviction Act, Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 29-3001 et seq. (Reissue 1989), seeking an order “vacating or setting aside” each of the two convictions for first degree murder and the resulting sentences of death which were affirmed on direct appeal in State v. Joubert, 224 Neb. 411, 399 N.W.2d 237 (1986) (Joubert I). He asserts, in summary, that the postconviction judge erred in failing to (1) disqualify himself, (2) find that Joubert’s trial attorneys were ineffective by virtue of a…