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Habeas Appellate Court Opinions

by Townsend, Karen

 

AC46542 - Cator v. Commissioner of Correction (“The petitioner claims that the court abused its discretion by denying him certification to appeal from its judgment (1) dismissing the first and third counts of his operative petition, which alleged due process violations and ineffective assistance of trial counsel, respectively; (2) rejecting his claim that he was improperly excluded from a critical stage of the proceedings during his criminal trial; (3) concluding that he had failed to establish that his first habeas counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to plead and prove a Brady claim and that he had been excluded from a critical stage of his criminal trial; and (4) determining that he had failed to demonstrate that his second and third habeas counsel were ineffective for failing to plead and prove the aforementioned ineffectiveness claims against his first habeas counsel. Although we agree with the petitioner that the habeas court abused its discretion in denying him certification to appeal, we affirm the court’s judgment on its merits.”)

AC46727 - Revels v. Commissioner of Correction (“On appeal, the petitioner claims that the habeas court improperly concluded that his right to the effective assistance of counsel was not violated when his trial counsel (1) conducted inadequate cross-examinations, (2) failed to introduce into evidence the petitioner’s cell phone records, and (3) failed to consult or present experts on false confessions and crime scene reconstruction. We affirm the judgment of the habeas court.)