Crawford v. Idaho
Annotate this CasePetitioner-appellant Shane Crawford petitioned for post-conviction relief after he was convicted for lewd conduct with a minor under the age of sixteen. Petitioner claimed he received ineffective assistance of counsel at both the trial and appellate stages. At the trial stage, Crawford claimed that his counsel was deficient in failing to request that the court either instruct the jury that manual-genital contact requires touching the vaginal area or define the term “genital.” Furthermore, he asserted that his trial counsel erred by failing to move for acquittal based upon insufficient evidence. On direct appeal of the conviction, Crawford’s counsel similarly did not raise a sufficiency of the evidence claim, which Crawford claimed constituted ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. The district court summarily dismissed Crawford’s petition, and he appealed. The Court of Appeals affirmed the summary dismissal. Crawford now seeks relief from this Court to have the summary dismissal of his claim reversed. Finding no reversible error in the summary dismissal of his claims, the Supreme Court affirmed.
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