POSTED: Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 at 10:30 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

Criminal Procedure Successive appeals Tramell E. Starks, pro se, appeals from an order denying his Wis. Stat. § 974.06 motion without a hearing. Starks had alleged that postconviction counsel was ineffective for failing to challenge trial counsel’s performance. The circuit court ruled that Starks had not set forth viable ineffectiveness claims against trial counsel, so [...]

POSTED: Thursday, April 14th, 2011 at 10:19 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

Criminal Procedure Ineffective assistance; prosecutorial misconduct Adrian Starks appeals a judgment of conviction for two counts of first-degree reckless homicide by delivery of drugs and one count of delivery of heroin. Wis. Stat. §§ 940.02(2)(a) and 961.41(1)(d)4. (2003-04). He also appeals the order denying his motion for postconviction relief. Starks argues that he received ineffective [...]