STATE v. PITTS

No. 92-641.

138 N.H. 147 (1993)

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. SHAYNE PITTS

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

December 28, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey R. Howard, attorney general (Cynthia L. White, assistant attorney general, on the brief and orally), for the State.

Timothy M. Landry, assistant appellate defender, of Concord, by brief and orally, for the defendant.


JOHNSON, J.

The defendant, Shayne Pitts, moved for a new trial on the basis of ineffective assistance of counsel after a jury convicted him of second degree murder. The Superior Court (Manias, J.) denied the motion, and Pitts appealed. We affirm.

The investigation that led to Pitts' arrest began on January 11, 1991, after his girlfriend, Melody Derosia-Waters, failed to board a plane for West Virginia as planned. She was pregnant at the time. Pitts...

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