STATE v. WARDEN, W.VA. PENITENTIARY

No. 25952.

528 S.E.2d 207 (1999)

207 W.Va. 11

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. Roy David VERNATTER, Petitioner Below, Appellant, v. WARDEN, WEST VIRGINIA PENITENTIARY, Respondent Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided December 16, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D.C. Offutt, Jr., Esq., Dianne D. Einstein, Esq., Huntington, West Virginia, Attorney for Appellant.

Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., Attorney General, Barbara Allen, Managing Deputy Attorney General, Charleston, West Virginia, Attorney for Appellee.


McGRAW, Justice:

Appellant Roy David Vernatter appeals the circuit court's refusal to grant him habeas corpus relief on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, where his primary allegation was that trial counsel were ineffective in failing to have arranged for him to undergo a psychiatric examination prior to his pleading guilty to first-degree murder. We affirm the judgment of the lower court, concluding that there...

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