By: Derek Hawkins//December 28, 2017//
WI Court of Appeals – District IV
Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Geoffrey A. Herling
Case No.: 2017AP133
Officials: Sherman, Blanchard and Kloppenburg, JJ.
Focus: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Geoffrey Herling was convicted of two counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide and appeals from an order denying his second motion for a new trial. As with his first postconviction motion, Herling seeks to establish that he suffered from amnesia at the time of the attempted homicides. In this second motion filed under WIS. STAT. § 974.06 (2015-16), Herling also argues that he was denied effective assistance of counsel at trial and in his first appeal. We reject Herling’s arguments and affirm.