Dennis Davis v. State

OPINION

JEFF ROSE, Justice.

A jury convicted Dennis Davis in 2011 of murdering Natalie Antonetti back in 1985, and the trial court sentenced him to 36 years’ imprisonment. See Tex. Penal Code § 19.02(b)(1), (2). 1 Among other grounds on appeal, Davis argues that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction and that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance on a number of fronts, including failure to present at trial evidence that Antonetti’s neighbor identified a potential alternate-perpetrator of the murder whom he had seen looking into windows of Antonetti’s apartment…