Williams v. State

Judge Arnold Shulman.

The appellant was found guilty of three counts of selling cocaine and was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on each count, to be served consecutively. He brings this appeal from the denial of his motion for new trial.

1. The appellant contends that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by calling his former parole officer, Michael Haus, to testify as a witness on his behalf and thereby apprising the jury of the fact that he (the appellant) had been convicted of robbery in 1976.

During the trial, the undercover officer who had made each of the cocaine purchases…