Carter v. State
Annotate this CaseAppellant was convicted of the 2002 first-degree murders of three individuals. The trial court sentenced Defendant to death for two of the murders and to life imprisonment for the third murder. The Supreme Court affirmed the convictions and sentences. This appeal concerned Appellant’s initial postconviction motion in which he asserted that his trial counsel was ineffective in failing to call experts to testify as to mental health mitigation at trial or at the subsequent Spencer hearing and in failing to move for a change of venue. The circuit court denied postconviction relief. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) Appellant failed to establish ineffective assistance of counsel as to his first claim; and (2) the circuit court correctly denied Appellant’s second claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.
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