Smith v. State

PHIPPS, Presiding Judge.

Uriah Joel Smith was tried by a jury and convicted of armed robbery, kidnapping and aggravated assault. The trial court denied Smith’s motion for new trial, and Smith appeals. He claims that his trial counsel was ineffective in severed respects. Because Smith has failed to demonstrate that his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance, we affirm.

“The benchmark for judging any claim of ineffectiveness must be whether counsel’s conduct so undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process that the trial cannot be relied on as having produced a just result.”…