Edgar v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Luckert, J.:

In Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S. Ct. 2052, 80 L. Ed. 2d 674 (1984), the United States Supreme Court established a two-prong test for determining if a criminal defendant’s right to effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution has been violated by the deficient performance of counsel. Under this test, a defendant must demonstrate that (1) counsel’s performance was deficient and (2) counsel’s deficient performance was sufficiently serious to prejudice the defense and deprive the…