COLE v. STATE

No. A-8169.

72 P.3d 322 (2003)

Joseph Jorge COLE, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

June 20, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan S. Bair, Anchorage, for Appellant.

Michael Sean McLaughlin, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Gregg D. Renkes, Attorney General, Juneau, for Appellee.

Before: COATS, Chief Judge, and MANNHEIMER and STEWART, Judges.


OPINION

STEWART, Judge.

A jury found Joseph Jorge Cole guilty of first-degree murder.1 The superior court imposed a 65-year sentence with 20 years suspended. We upheld Cole's conviction on direct appeal.2 Cole pursued an application for post-conviction relief, claiming that his trial attorney was incompetent in two ways: first, because she did not retain a forensic pathologist to present evidence...

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