State v. Cook
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of first degree murder and use of a firearm to commit a felony. The conviction was affirmed on direct appeal. Defendant later filed a second amended motion for postconviction relief, raising the same four claims of ineffective assistance of counsel as he did on direct appeal and thirty-one new claims for postconviction relief. The district court granted a hearing on Defendant’s ineffective assistance of counsel claims, along with three new claims, and rejected the remaining claims on the grounds that the claims either had no merit or did not allege facts with sufficiently specificity regarding prejudice. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the district court did not err in denying Defendant’s request for a hearing on twenty-eight of his thirty-five grounds for post-conviction relief.
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