Daniel Ray Wilkes v. State of Indiana

DICKSON, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Daniel Ray Wilkes, has appealed the post-conviction court’s denial of his claim that he was deprived of his constitutional rights to an impartial jury and effective assistance of counsel. We affirm the post-conviction court.

The defendant was convicted by a jury of the 2006 murders of Donna Claspell and her two daughters, eight-year-old Sydne Claspell and thirteen-year-old Avery Pike. 1 The State sought the death penalty and, in the penalty phase of the trial, the jury found all four charged statutory aggravating circumstances and that the aggravating…