Cox v. Howerton
Annotate this CaseThis appeal returned to the court following its grant in 2010 of defendant's pro se application for a certificate of probable cause and its remand of the case to the habeas court with direction "to analyze and make appropriate findings and legal conclusions regarding the prejudice prong of the test for ineffective assistance of counsel." On remand, the habeas court concluded that defendant did not satisfy the prejudice prong and denied relief. The court held that there was evidence to support the factual findings made by the habeas court and the legal conclusions drawn by the habeas court were sound. Therefore, the court affirmed that court's determination that defendant failed to establish the prejudice prong of the Strickland test and its judgment that the petition for a writ of habeas corpus should be denied.
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