Reese v. State

[¶ 1] Olland Reese appeals from a judgment of the trial court (Sagadahoc County, Warren, J.) dismissing Grounds 1-5 of his second petition for post-conviction review prior to the evidentiary hearing on the petition. Those grounds asserted that Reese’s counsel in his first petition for post-conviction review, which was denied in 2009, was ineffective. The court concluded that Maine law does not permit a second petition to challenge the effectiveness of counsel who represented a petitioner in a prior petition, and that the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1,…