Dawn Launiere54 minutes readIn this case, the Criminal Defense Lawyer in Sullivan's Island SC's performance was not poor and, therefore, the lawyer's assistance remained ineffective when referring to the defendant's guilty pleas on charges of assault and threat involving the same victim during a trial on contested charges of sexual assault in which (his purpose in allowing the military judge to know the contradictory statements) was to help the judge, as an investigator, to become familiar with the way in which the expected evidence related to the contested and uncontested specifications, as described in the Criminal Defense Lawyer in Sullivan's Island SC's initial statement, and (the lawyer did not agree that a military judge could consider the allegations or their providential investigation to prove any element of the contested crimes). When a claim for ineffective legal assistance is based on the Criminal Defense Lawyer in Sullivan's Island SC's failure to file a motion to suppress evidence, the appellant must demonstrate that there is a reasonable probability that the motion was meritorious; likewise, if poor performance is demonstrated, to demonstrate prejudice, the appellant must demonstrate that there is a reasonable probability that, had it not been for the Criminal Defense Lawyer in Sullivan's Island SC's unprofessional errors, the outcome of the proceeding would have been different; a reasonable probability is a probability enough to undermine confidence in the outcome).
