Fortson v. State

Marshall, Justice.

The defendant appeals from his conviction of armed robbery.

1. Appellant’s first enumerated error is the alleged ineffective assistance of his retained trial counsel.

" 'We interpret the right of counsel as the right to effective counsel. We interpret counsel to mean not errorless counsel, and not counsel judged ineffective by hindsight, but counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance.’ . . . [T]he effectiveness of counsel cannot be fairly measured by the results of a criminal trial or appeal, but upon the reasonable effectiveness of…