Hovis v. State

How courts have described this case

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• trial counsel was not ineffective where he articulated a valid strategic reason for not objecting to purported bad character evidence
• failure to object to testimony that defendant did not have a driver’s license was not erroneous since the testimony supported the defense theory and provided an alternative explanation for defendant’s act of leaving the scene of the accident
• failure to object to testimony that defendant did not have a driver’s license was not erroneous since the testimony supported the defense theory and provided an alternative explanation for defendant’s act of leaving the scene of the accident

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