ARCHULETA v. GALETKA

No. 960533.

960 P.2d 399 (1998)

Michael Anthony ARCHULETA, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Hank GALETKA, Warden, Utah State Prison, Defendant and Appellee.

Supreme Court of Utah.

June 26, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. David Eckersley, Salt Lake City, and Karen A. Chaney, Colorado Springs, Colorado, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Jan Graham, Attorney General, Kris C. Leonard, Assistant Attorney General, Salt Lake City, for Defendant and Appellee.


STEWART, Justice:

Plaintiff Michael Anthony Archuleta was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death. We affirmed the conviction and sentence in State v. Archuleta, 850 P.2d 1232, 1248 (Utah 1993). Thereafter, Archuleta filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the district court, challenging his conviction on the ground that he had been denied his Sixth Amendment constitutional right to the effective assistance...

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