Ex Parte: Gerald Wayne Hodge

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that failure to act on parental duties to care for children “can constitute murder or involuntary manslaughter” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• defendant’s abuse toward other children probative of his state of mind toward child who was victim of murder
• implicitly discrediting trial counsel's affidavit concerning alleged deficiencies in his investigation \was within the province of the judge\
• motion judge who also was trial judge may use knowledge and evaluation of evidence at trial in determining whether to hold evidentiary hearing on motion for new trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).