Jackson v. Franke

In this post-conviction proceeding, petitioner challenged, among other things, the adequacy of legal representation he received in conjunction with his underlying criminal trial, in which he was convicted of first-degree sodomy. One of petitioner’s inadequate-assistance claims was based on his lawyer’s failure to object to a diagnosis of sexual abuse in the absence of physical corroborating evidence.1 Petitioner assigns error to the post-conviction court’s grant of the defendant superintendent’s motion for partial summary judgment, and to the denial of petitioner’s cross-motion for partial…