State v. Gregory Maine
Annotate this CaseDefendant appealed a conviction of driving under the influence of alcohol ("DUI") where the DUI was charged as a felony because he had three prior DUI convictions. At issue was whether the district court erred in denying defendant's motion to reduce the charge to a misdemeanor where he claimed that his 1997 conviction was constitutionally infirm because he was denied his right to effective assistance of counsel. The court affirmed and held that defendant had not met his burden to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that his 1997 conviction was constitutionally infirm due to his ineffective assistance of trial counsel where defendant failed to demonstrate that counsel's performance fell below an objective standard of reasonable care and where, even assuming that it did, defendant failed to demonstrate a reasonable probability that but for counsel's errors, the result of the trial would have been different.
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