Jenkins v. Commissioner of Correction

Opinion

SCHALLER, J.

The respondent commissioner of correction appeals from the judgment of the habeas court granting the petitioner’s amended petition for habeas corpus, which was based on a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel. The respondent claims on appeal that the habeas court improperly (1) applied the Strickland,1 presumption that counsel’s acts and omissions constitute reasonable tactical decisions, (2) found that counsel’s performance was deficient for failing to object to the prosecutor’s argument regarding the credibility of witnesses, (3) found that counsel’s…