NEW v. WEBER

No. 20530.

600 N.W.2d 568 (1999)

1999 SD 125

Theodore Dean NEW, Applicant and Appellant, v. Douglas WEBER, Warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, Appellee.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided September 15, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dwight A. Gubbrud, Belle Fourche, for applicant and appellant.

Mark Barnett, Attorney General, Jeffrey P. Hallem, Assistant Attorney General, Pierre, for appellee.


KONENKAMP, Justice.

[¶ 1.] Theodore New appeals the denial of his application for a writ of habeas corpus based on ineffective assistance of counsel. New asserts that various tactics employed by his trial attorney resulted in deficient representation. The circuit court found otherwise and we affirm.

Facts

[¶ 2.] In the early morning of April 8, 1993, John Mousseaux was brutally beaten to...

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