Pauling v. State

BURNETT, Justice:

Petitioner was convicted of first degree burglary and first degree criminal sexual conduct (CSC). He received a life sentence for burglary and a thirty-year sentence for CSC. This Court granted a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the post-conviction relief (PCR) judge denying petitioner’s PCR application. We reverse.

ISSUE

Did the PCR judge err in holding trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to introduce the triage nurse’s notes or to interview and prepare the triage nurse as a defense witness?

FACTS

At trial, the fifty-five-year-old victim testified a man who…