State v. Hulse
Court of Appeals of Utah
1Opinion of the Court
ORME, Judge:
¶1 Douglas John Hulse (Defendant) appeals his convictions for aggravated assault and unlawful detention. He argues that he received ineffective assistance of counsel because his attorney (Trial Counsel) failed to investigate and use his victim's prior fraud conviction to attack her character for truthfulness, failed to object to allegedly improper expert testimony, failed to object to inadmissible evidence of his abusive nature, and failed to object to inappropriate comments made by the State during closing argument. We affirm.
BACKGROUND 1
¶2 Defendant and the victim (Victim) were…
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