Short v. Hill

KANTOR, J. pro tempore

Petitioner appeals from a judgment denying his petition for post-conviction relief. Petitioner argued that his representation at his underlying burglary trial was constitutionally defective because his trial counsel, among other things, failed to introduce expert testimony to corroborate his assertion that, because he was suffering from methamphetamine withdrawal, he was unable to form the requisite criminal intent. At the post-conviction hearing, he introduced an affidavit from a psychiatrist generally stating that cessation of methamphetamine use could cause a person…