Case Title: In re Trombley

Citation: 160 Vt. 215, 627 A.2d 855

Docket Number: 

State: vermont

Court: Vermont Supreme Court

Date: 1993-02-01T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN_RE_TROMBLEY.92-257; 160 Vt. 215; 627 A.2d 855


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                                 No. 92-257


 In re Michael Trombly                        Supreme Court

                                              On Appeal from
                                              Rutland Superior Court

                                              February Term, 1993

 Richard W. Norton, J.

 Matt Harnett of Lorentz, Lorentz & Harnett, Rutland, for petitioner-
    appellant

 Jeffrey L. Amestoy, Attorney General, and Susan R. Harritt, Assistant
    Attorney General, Montpelier, for respondent-appellee


 PRESENT:  Allen, C.J., Gibson, Dooley, Morse and Johnson, JJ.


      MORSE, J.     This case presents the issue whether a criminal defense
 lawyer renders ineffective assistance of counsel by requesting at the
 client's insistence that the court not instruct the jury that attempted
 manslaughter is a lesser included offense of attempted murder.  We hold
 defendant's counsel represented defendant properly and affirm.
      Defendant was convicted in 1984 of attempted first degree murder in
 violation of 13 V.S.A. { 2301 after he shot a Montpelier police officer in
 the leg.  His defense was diminished capacity due to aggravated stress and
 intoxication.  Defendant took a direct appeal to this Court, State v.
 Trombly, 148 Vt. 293,