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Wright v. State

Citations

  • 125 S.W.3d 861
  • 2003 Mo. App. LEXIS 1978
  • 2003 WL 22958541

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  • holding, under similar circumstances, that the movant did not establish Strickland prejudice from his trial counsel’s failure to object to the lack of a cross-reference to the self- defense and defense of another instructions in the verdict directors
  • “We cannot ... find trial counsel’s performance deficient because he failed to protect his right to assert a defense to which his client clearly was not entitled as a matter of law.” (citing Dorsey v. State, 113 S.W.3d 311, 318 (Mo.App. S.D.2003))

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Judges: Phillip R. Garrison

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