Guy v. State

HOLLAND, Justice:

In this appeal from the Superior Court’s denial of Tyrone Guy’s (“Guy”) motion for postconviction relief, we address how the procedural bars of Superior Court Criminal Rule 61 apply to Guy’s claims, including his claim of ineffective assistance of postconviction counsel. Guy advances two arguments in this appeal: first, that the Superior Court erred during his trial by failing to give the “modified Bland ”1 jury instruction on accomplice testimony mandated by this Court’s 2012 decision in Brooks v. State;2 and second, that his appointed counsel was ineffective in his first…