Games v. State

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

DICKSON, Justice.

The defendant-petitioner, James Games, seeks rehearing following our decision affirming his convictions for murder and robbery. Games v. State, 684 N.E.2d 466 (Ind.1997). We grant rehearing solely to clarify the proper appellate standard for reviewing denials of post-conviction claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel.

In his post-conviction appeal, the defendant claimed that the standard of review for the prejudice prong of his ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim is whether “there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s…