Hockman v. United States

ROGERS, Associate Judge:

Appellant Michael Hockman challenges the denial of his motion to vacate sentence and set aside judgment and for new trial based on the ineffective assistance of his trial counsel, D.C.Code § 23-110 (1981). 1 He contends he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel because errors by his trial counsel adversely affected what could have been a compelling self-defense case, and consequently the trial cannot be relied upon as having produced a just result. Specifically, Hockman points to his trial counsel’s failures (1) to move to suppress…