Strain v. State
Annotate this CaseAppellant Ricky Strain was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder and was sentenced to 300 months' incarceration. Appellant subsequently filed a timely petition for postconviction relief, which the trial court denied following an evidentiary hearing. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that trial counsel was not ineffective for failing (1) to preserve the sufficiency-of-the-evidence issue for appeal where Appellant's conviction was supported by substantial evidence, (2) to seek certain jury instructions regarding accomplice liability, (3) to seek severance of Appellant's trial from his codefendant's trial, and (4) to properly argue that a witness's prior inconsistent statement could not be considered by the jury for the truth of the matter stated, as Appellant failed to demonstrate that any objection to the statement or request for a limiting instruction would have been meritorious.
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