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MITCHELL v. CLASS

No. 18650.

524 N.W.2d 860 (1994)

Dennis MITCHELL, Petitioner and Appellant, v. Joe CLASS, Warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, and Dan Jacobson, Chairman of the South Dakota Board of Pardons and Paroles, Appellees.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided December 7, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Gerdes of Williams, Gellhaus & Gerdes, P.C., Aberdeen, for petitioner and appellant.

Mark Barnett, Atty. Gen., Sherri Sundem Wald, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, for appellees.

SABERS, Justice.

Mitchell appeals from denial of petition for writ of habeas corpus based on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. We affirm.

FACTS

The facts are set out in detail in State v. Mitchell, 491 N.W.2d 438 (S.D.1992). Mitchell married S.D.'s mother in October, 1978. S.D. was eight years old at that time. Mitchell and S.D.'s relationship began to deteriorate when S.D. became a teenager...

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