Opinion ID: 2544290
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Pre-Evidentiary Hearing Developments

Text: The case currently under review is Kilgore's first postconviction proceeding before this Court. On June 8, 1998, Kilgore filed a shell motion to vacate judgment of conviction and sentence entered in the Tenth Judicial Circuit. Sometime thereafter, Kilgore's trial counsel, Alcott, was appointed to be a judge on the Tenth Judicial Circuit. Kilgore filed a motion to disqualify the circuit judge in the Tenth Judicial Circuit assigned to his case, which was granted, and Judge Rogers Padgett of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit was appointed to preside over the postconviction proceedings. Kilgore subsequently filed an amended motion to vacate judgment of conviction and sentence which raised twenty-seven claims, many of them with multiple sub-claims. [7] The postconviction court held a Huff [8] hearing, and on May 4, 2004, the postconviction court issued an order that summarily denied claims I, II (in part), III, IV (in part), V (in part), VI (in part), IX-XIV, XV (in part), XVI-XIX, XX (in part) XXI, and XXII-XXVI, and granted an evidentiary hearing for claims II (in part), IV (in part), V (in part), VI (in part), VIII, XV (in part), and XX (in part) [9] . The court reserved ruling on claims VII and XXVII.