Legal Opinion
Welch v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided June 25, 1996No. 93-CF-355, 94-CO-1368PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Per curiam
After a jury trial, appellant Michael Welch was convicted of two counts of rape while armed, in violation of D.C.Code §§ 22-2801 and -3202 (1989 Repl.). He was sentenced to two consecutive terms of fifteen years to life in prison. Several months after his sentence, Welch filed a motion for a new trial, alleging ineffective assistance of counsel under D.C.Code § 23-110 (1989 Repl.). An eviden-tiary hearing was held on one of his nine allegations of specifications of deficient performance by his counsel, and the others were resolved without an evidentiary hearing. The trial court denied the…
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