Legal Opinion
Porter v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 16, 2012No. 09-CO-425PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Associate Judge:
Appellant Earl Porter appeals from the trial court’s denial of his D.C.Code § 23-110 motion, in which he sought relief on the ground that he received ineffective assistance from his trial counsel. The motion argued that Porter’s trial counsel was ineffective in failing to seek suppression of evidence recovered from the scene of an alleged robbery. The trial court assumed that appellant’s trial counsel was remiss in that regard and that a motion to suppress would have been successful, but it denied the § 23-110 motion because the remaining evidence against appellant…
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