State v. Wright

¶1 The Defendant, John Thomas Wright (Wright), pled guilty to eleven counts of sexual assault on January 30,1998, in the Sixteenth Judicial District Court in Custer County. Wright was sentenced on May 28, 1998, and on July 15, 1999, he filed a petition for postconviction relief. The District Court denied his petition, and he appeals therefrom. We affirm.

¶2 The dispositive issues on appeal are:

¶3 1. Did the District Court err in determining that Wright did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel on the asserted grounds that Wright’s counsel coerced him to plead guilty, failed to appeal…