Arner v. State

CARDINE, Justice.

Dennis Joseph Arner (Arner) was convicted of two counts of obtaining property by false pretenses and now appeals claiming ineffective assistance of counsel and that the prosecution’s questioning of Arner concerning a prior felony conviction amounted to plain error.

We affirm.

Arner phrases the issues as follows:

I. Was appellant denied effective assistance of counsel by his trial counsel’s failure to voir dire, introduction of otherwise inadmissable “bad acts” evidence, failure to object to the prosecutor’s introduction of evidence which was inadmissable under Rule 609, W.R.E.,…