AC46422 - Walker v. Commissioner of Correction ("On appeal, the petitioner claims that the court improperly
concluded that he failed to demonstrate that his trial counsel provided
ineffective assistance by failing to move for a mistrial during his criminal
trial because an exhibit, specifically, an RT-60 form, was admitted into
evidence and briefly published to the jury, and that exhibit evidenced that he
had been incarcerated near the time of that trial. The petitioner asserts that
publication of this evidence vitiated the presumption of innocence to which he
was entitled, and a mistrial was the only way to remedy this violation of due
process. We disagree and affirm the judgment of the habeas court denying the
petition.")
AC46279 - Dearing v. Commissioner of Correction (Amended petition; alleged ineffective assistance of criminal
trial counsel, appellate counsel, and prior habeas counsel; “The petitioner
claims on appeal that the habeas court improperly failed to conclude that (1)
his criminal trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing (a) to
engage and present the testimony of a child abuse expert, (b) to obtain certain
confidential records of the victim, and (c) to object to or have stricken
certain testimony provided by the state’s expert on child forensic interviews;
(2) appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance in his direct criminal
appeal by failing to challenge the trial court’s decision not to release the
victim’s confidential records; and (3) prior habeas counsel provided
ineffective assistance by failing to raise in his previous habeas action the
foregoing claims of ineffective assistance directed at trial and appellate
counsel. We disagree and, accordingly, affirm the judgment of the habeas court.”)