State v. Garrison

OPINION

in which ANDERSON, C.J., DROWOTA, HOLDER, JJ., and JOHN K. BYERS, S.J., joined.

The defendant, John C. Garrison, was convicted by a jury of solicitation to commit first degree murder. In this appeal, he raises two issues: (1) whether trial counsel’s failure to communicate a plea bargain offer from the State is per se prejudicial to the extent necessary to satisfy the prejudice prong of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984); and (2) whether the trial court committed reversible error when it failed to instruct the jury that the “request,” as used in…