Ross v. Commissioner of Correction

MAURICE ROSS v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION (SC 20281) Robinson, C. J., and McDonald, D’Auria, Mullins, Kahn and Ecker, Js. Syllabus The petitioner, who had been convicted of murder, sought a writ of habeas corpus, claiming, inter alia, that his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to object to certain improper remarks by the prose- cutor during closing argument. Specifically, the prosecutor stated in her closing argument that the state’s firearms expert, S, had testified that a purposeful trigger pull was required to fire the petitioner’s gun, even though S did not make…