State v. Simmons

BECTON, Judge.

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The dispositive issues on appeal relate to the joinder of defendants’ cases for trial and to effective assistance of counsel. Both defendants have appealed, but because we are granting defendant Simmons’s motion for appropriate relief, we need not consider the merits of his appeal.

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The State presented evidence tending to show that on 7 January 1982, around 7:00 P.M., Raymond Buff arrived at the residence of Clyde Coulter, and noticed a Volkswagen Beetle parked adjacent to the house. Shortly afterward, defendant Hal Hallman arrived at the residence, talked with Coulter for…