Opinion ID: 1969802
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 20

Heading: 81, a.98, b.21, b.32, b.43-45, b.140)

Text: The claims in this subcategory include claims of discovery violations based on the State's alleged failure to turn over to trial counsel copies of the report of the physician who examined defendant on the night of the homicide and copies of defendant's treatment records from the hospital emergency room. Also included are claims of ineffective assistance of counsel generally alleging that trial counsel failed to produce adequate testimony demonstrating that defendant had received a head wound at the crime scene that required five stitches, thereby depriving defendant of the benefit of testimony corroborating that defendant had been the victim of a robbery, and that counsel failed to request before trial the second page of the report of the medical examination of defendant performed on September 6, 1984. We address all claims in this subcategory on their merits, and we conclude that all of them should be dismissed for the same reasons that we dismissed the general claims in this category, namely, that the evidence at trial incontrovertibly established the extent of defendant's injuries at the crime scene. The critical issue was not how badly defendant was injured, but whether the assault on defendant was staged to avert suspicion of a motive for homicide. 7. Defendant's Demeanor