Hampton v. State

Blackburn, Judge.

Jeffrey Hampton was convicted by a jury under two separate indictments for two counts of sale of cocaine and two counts of possession of cocaine. On appeal, Hampton contends his trial counsel was ineffective.

“The bench mark for judging any claim of ineffectiveness must be whether counsel’s conduct so undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process that the trial cannot be relied on as having produced a just result. In order to prevail on an ineffectiveness claim, a convicted defendant must show (1) that counsel’s performance was deficient, i.e., that counsel’s…