State v. Jenkins

PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

|,Keith Jenkins, a prisoner serving a life sentence at Angola State Penitentiary, timely filed an application for post-conviction relief. In that application, he raised the claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel and alleged five distinct instances in which his counsel’s representation was both deficient and prejudicial. The district judge, who also presided over Mr. Jenkins’ trial, dismissed his application without .requiring the district attorney to file an answer and held that Mr. Jenkins had failed to provide sufficient evidence to support the allegations…