Ploof v. State

STEELE, Chief Justice for the Majority:

This appeal addresses whether a defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel during the penalty phase of his first-degree murder trial. We previously rejected the defendant’s claims arising from his trial’s guilt phase, but we remanded his penalty phase claims for the postconviction judge to reweigh the aggra*844vating circumstances against the mitigating circumstances established at trial and in the postconviction proceedings.1 The defendant contends that his attorneys were ineffective because they failed to uncover evidence that the defendant’s…