AMES v. STATE


534 A.2d 358 (1987)

Mark AMES v. STATE of Maine.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided December 10, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra Hylander Collier, Silsby & Silsby, Ellsworth, for plaintiff.

James Tierney, Atty. Gen., Wayne S. Moss, Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and NICHOLS, WATHEN, GLASSMAN, SCOLNIK and CLIFFORD, JJ.


NICHOLS, Justice.

The Petitioner, Mark Ames, in a post-conviction review of his conviction in Superior Court, Penobscot County, for gross sexual misconduct and unlawful sexual conduct, challenges that judgment on the grounds that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel in the underlying jury-waived trial.

Although the Petitioner complains of an inadequate pretrial investigation, the Petitioner withheld from his trial counsel until after conviction...

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