Legal Opinion
Alondo Greenleaf v. State of Mississippi
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided March 21, 2019No. 2017-KA-01216-SCTPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ISHEE, JUSTICE, FOR THE COURT:
¶1. Alondo Greenleaf was convicted of aggravated assault after stabbing a young man in the back. Greenleaf testified it was an accident, and on appeal he contends he received constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel because his defense attorney did not offer what Greenleaf calls an "accident instruction" based on the excusable homicide statute. But Greenleaf fails to rebut the presumption this was sound trial strategy, so we affirm Greenleaf's conviction and sentence.
FACTS
¶2. On April 29, 2016, Greenleaf asked his cousin, 1 Cecily Matthews, to borrow…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Read v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1983
- Cole v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1995
- Wilcher v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2003
- Neal v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2009
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3Cited by7 opinions
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