Blouin v. State

Pope, Presiding Judge.

John Daryl Blouin was tried by a jury and convicted of selling cocaine. He contends his trial counsel was ineffective because he did not attempt to introduce the transcript of a co-indictee’s former testimony, which contained exculpatory evidence.

At trial, the State introduced only two witnesses, one of whom simply identified the contraband as cocaine. The State’s main witness, Officer Todd Henderson, testified to the facts of the sting operation. He testified that he was riding in the backseat of a car driven by an unidentified, confidential informant and that a second…