Carson v. State

Blackburn, Presiding Judge.

Following a jury trial, Reginald Kinderly Carson appeals his conviction for armed robbery of Thomas Curry, a 65-year-old terminally ill cancer victim whom Carson had pummeled in the head with a metal object in order to steal the proceeds from his Social Security check. Carson, a five-time felon, also appeals his subsequent recidivist sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole, contending in a single enumeration that he received ineffective assistance of trial counsel pursuant to the Sixth Amendment. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm both…