Hill v. State

Sears, Justice.

Catara Hill appeals her conviction for the murder of Phalonda Howard, 1 claiming that she was denied the effective assistance of counsel due to her lawyer’s previous representation of a witness for the prosecution, and that the trial court erred by giving an improper sequential charge to the jury. Having reviewed the transcript of the proceedings, we conclude that no improper conflict of interest arose due to trial counsel’s earlier representation, in an unrelated matter, of a witness to the murder. We also conclude that the trial court’s charge to the jury did not include an…