State v. Harrison (Majority, with Dissenting)
Annotate this CaseAppellee Kenneth Harrison was tried and convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. The Supreme Court affirmed. Harrison subsequently filed a petition for postconviction relief. The circuit court entered an order granting a new trial based on its finding that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to discover the juvenile adjudication for capital murder of one of the two eyewitnesses who testified to Harrison's murder of the victim, and for failing to use that conviction to impeach the witness at trial or to investigate the witness's background and develop a strategy of defense implicating the witness as the perpetrator of the victim's murder. The State appealed. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the circuit court's findings were not clearly erroneous, and therefore, the court did not err in granting postconviction relief.
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