Legal Opinion
State v. Brown
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided June 30, 2010No. Nos. 2008-197; 2009-181PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHicks, J.
The defendant, Michael Brown, was convicted of attempted first degree murder, see RSA 629:1 (2007); RSA 630:l-a (2007), and witness tampering, see RSA 641:5 (2007). He contends that the Superior Court (Nadeau, J.) erred by denying his motion for a new trial based upon a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. We affirm.
The jury could have found the following facts. The defendant, a middle-aged man, began a relationship with the victim in either 2004 or 2005, when she was fifteen years old. On her sixteenth birthday, he gave her a ring and they discussed the possibility of marrying after…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Wiggins v. Smith, WardenSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- State v. BallSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1983
- Howard L. Bashor v. Henry Risley, Warden of Montana State Prison and Michael Greely, Attorney General for the State of MontanaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1984
- Scott Lee Tinsley v. George Million, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2005
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3Cited by6 opinions
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