2008 OK CR 30 - Wiley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “... In this ease, Appellant's retained counsel provided little representation, much less the minimal effective assistance required by the Sixth Amendment. Based upon the record, counsel's conduct clearly fell below that expected of a reasonably competent defense attorney and Appellant has shown there is a reasonable probability that but for counsel's unreasonable representation, the result of the trial would have been different. Due to defense counsel's obvious unpreparedness, his failure to comply with discovery requirements, to have the DNA independently tested, to know the names of his witnesses, to interview all alibi witnesses, to know the proper sentencing range for one of the charged crimes, and his abrupt conclusion of voir dire, despite advice from the trial judge not to pursue that course of conduct, the prosecution's case was not subject to meaningful adversarial testing.... Counsel's conduct in this case so undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process that the trial cannot be relied upon as having produced a just result. [Emphasis supplied.]”

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   e.g. STATE EX REL. OKLAHOMA BAR ASS'N v. Latimer