IN RE WILLIAMS

No. 12-179.

101 A.3d 151 (2014)

2014 VT 67

In re Eric WILLIAMS.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

July 11, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allison N. Fulcher of Martin & Associates, Barre, for Petitioner-Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

Thomas J. Donovan, Jr. , Chittenden County State's Attorney, and Pamela Hall Johnson , Deputy State's Attorney, Burlington, for Respondent-Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

Present: REIBER, C.J., DOOLEY and CRAWFORD, JJ., and MORSE and BURGESS JJ. (Ret.), Specially Assigned.


CRAWFORD, J.

¶ 1. This post-conviction relief (PCR) case arises from a tragic fire in an apartment house that caused the deaths of three young children and their grandmother. Petitioner, a resident in the same building, pled guilty to four counts of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to serve forty to sixty years in prison. He was nineteen years old at the time of the offense.

¶ 2. Petitioner seeks to vacate his conviction on grounds of ineffective...

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