Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

By: Derek Hawkins//August 28, 2018//

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WI Court of Appeals – District III

Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. Ronald D. Morgan

Case No.: 2017AP211-CR

Officials: Stark, P.J., Hruz and Seidl, JJ.

Focus: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

Ronald Morgan appeals a judgment of conviction, entered upon a jury’s verdict, for multiple sex offenses against fifteen-year-old Albert, as well as an order denying him postconviction relief. Morgan seeks a new trial, asserting that his trial attorney was constitutionally ineffective by failing to object to certain testimony from the victim’s mother and by permitting the prosecution to play a videotaped statement the victim gave a few days after the incident. We conclude Morgan has failed to demonstrate a reasonable probability of a different outcome even if the challenged evidence had been excluded as inadmissible hearsay. Accordingly, we affirm.

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