First, the bill says a successive motion could be evaluated by the court if the claim relied on a new rule of constitutional law that was applied retroactively and relevant to the prisoner’s case. The ...

If the bill introduced by the Republican attorney general and considered Wednesday by a GOP-led Senate committee had been part of state law ... motions on ineffective assistance of counsel ...

The Schenectady County district attorney’s office will handle Chris Porco’s latest bid to convince a judge to overturn his 2004 conviction in the ax murder of his father and maiming of his mother in ...

Sutrick’s remaining ineffective assistance claims also lack arguable merit. Under these circumstances, Sutrick has not shown any arguably meritorious basis to claim that his trial counsel was co ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The unusual rape case of Sergio ... s representation was ineffective stated that for a conviction be overturned on the basis of ineffective assistance of counsel, an attorney ...