State v. Mederos
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of two counts of sexual assault and sentenced to concurrent 100 year sentences, with fifty years of each sentence suspended. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that Defendant's trial counsel did not render ineffective assistance in (1) failing to object to the admission of certain incidences of hearsay testimony by various witnesses, as the testimony either fell among the hearsay exceptions provided for in the Montana Rules of Evidence or defense counsel may have had strategic reasons for not objecting; and (2) stipulating to the admission of multiple items of evidence that Defendant alleged contained otherwise inadmissible hearsay evidence, as Defendant's allegations implicated questions of trial strategy that exceeded the scope of the record.
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