Smith v. State

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

SELBY, Justice.

The State challenges the decision of the Court of Appeals which reversed the jury convictions of Ralph' D. Smith (“defendant”) for one count of child molesting as a class C felony, 1 and one count of attempted child molesting as a class B felony. 2 The Court of Appeals, with one dissent, reversed his conviction because it concluded that defendant’s trial attorney failed to move to suppress and to object to the admission of Smith’s confession, which he asserted at trial was coerced, and that this constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. 673 N.E.2d…