Case Title: State of Arkansas v. Kenneth Lamont Slocum

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State: arkansas

Court: Arkansas Supreme Court

Date: 1998-03-12T00:00:00Z

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STATE of Arkansas v. Kenneth Lamont SLOCUM

Cr 97-244                                          ___ S.W.2d ___

                    Supreme Court of Arkansas
                Opinion delivered March 12, 1998


1.   Criminal procedure -- postconviction relief -- standard for
     appeal from granting of. -- In an appeal from the granting of
     Ark. R. Crim. P. 37 relief, the supreme court will not reverse
     the decision unless it is clearly erroneous; the question the
     court must decide is whether the trial court clearly erred in
     holding that counsel's performance was ineffective, applying
     the standard set in Strickland v. Washington,