Kinsella v. State

VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice.

[¶ 1] Billy Joe Kinsella appealed from a district court judgment denying his application for post-conviction relief. We affirm, concluding Kinsella failed to demonstrate he received ineffective assistance of counsel from his trial attorney.

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[¶ 2] In 2010, a jury convicted Kinsella of sexually assaulting his sixteen-year-old stepdaughter, S.B. Evidence at the trial included testimony from the investigating officer, the sexual assault nurse examiner (“SANE”), North Dakota State Crime Laboratory analysts, and DNA evidence taken from bed sheets located in the Kin-sella…