Barker v. Barrow

HINES, Justice.

This Court granted criminal defendant Darion C. Barker a certificate of probable cause to appeal an order of the Superior Court of Wilcox County denying his application for a writ of habeas corpus in order to consider whether the habeas court erred in concluding that trial counsel (and thus appellate counsel) was not ineffective for failing to further investigate the actual validity of Barker’s prior convictions in the face of the State’s notice of intent to rely on those convictions for sentencing enhancement purposes. Finding that it was not error to reject the claims of the…