Legal Opinion
State v. Pettibone
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided November 3, 1993No. CR93-334PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
STOKER, Judge.
Defendant, Edmund Bruce Pettibone, was charged with and convicted by a jury of the aggravated rape of his four-and-one-half-year-old son under LSA-R.S. 14:42(A)(4). Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment without benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence, as mandated by LSA-R.S. 14:42(C). Defendant appeals his conviction. The sole issue presented on appeal is defendant’s claim that he had ineffective assistance of counsel at trial. We affirm.
OPINION
Effective Assistance of Counsel
A defendant’s constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel, and the…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- McMann v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- State v. RatcliffSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1982
- State v. PeartSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1993
- State v. BrewingtonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1992
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3Cited by1 opinion
- State v. JohnsonLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1995