Hutto v. State

I respectfully dissent. In my view, trial counsel’s performance did not meet prevailing professional norms, and that deficient performance prejudiced petitioner. McKnight v. *251State, 378 S.C. 33, 661 S.E.2d 354 (2008). I would therefore reverse the order which denied petitioner post-conviction relief (PCR).

Petitioner’s PCR claim rests on two instances of allegedly ineffective assistance of counsel: first, trial counsel’s failure to object to Agent Harris’s testimony at trial, and second, his failure to object to the admissibility of the victim’s identification of petitioner both in and out of…