Evans v. State

*617OPINION

By the Court,

Becker, J.:

In 1994 appellant Vernell Ray Evans was convicted of burglary and four counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. This court affirmed his conviction and sentence. He then filed a post-conviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which the *618district court denied without holding an evidentiary hearing. Evans appeals.

The overarching issue is whether any of Evans’s claims warranted an evidentiary hearing. We conclude that a hearing is not necessary to assess the claims, and we affirm the district court’s order insofar as it upholds Evans’s conviction.…