Legal Opinion
Graves v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided March 16, 2005No. 49S02-0306-PC-253PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION TO TRANSFER FROM THE INDIANA COURT OF APPEALS, NO. 49A02-0207-PC-522.
SHEPARD, Chief Justice.
A generation ago, Anthony Graves pled guilty to burglary and got a suspended sentence. He is now litigating his second petition for post-conviction relief, alleging he received ineffective assistance of counsel during the proceedings on the first petition.
The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court's denial of the petition, holding that had the first post-conviction lawyer performed certain acts the result "could have been different." This misreads the standard applicable to claims about…
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