People v. Clarke

Following a jury trial, defendant was convicted of the first degree murder of Victor Pineda and sentenced to 65 years in prison. On appeal, defendant contends that: (1) the evidence was insufficient to prove him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt where neither defendant’s confession nor the eyewitness’s pretrial identification of defendant was credible; (2) trial counsel was ineffective by failing to offer evidence to corroborate defendant’s claim of police abuse at the hearing on the motion to quash his arrest and suppress his statement; (3) trial counsel was ineffective by failing to submit a…