Opinion ID: 1841380
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Victim's Socks

Text: Grim claims counsel was ineffective for failing to point out that Deputy Lynch, the officer who responded to the victim's home early in the morning regarding her call of a disturbance, indicated Campbell was not wearing socks, but her body was found with socks. The record does not support this claim. Lynch testified at trial that the victim was not wearing shoes when he responded to her home on the morning of the murder, but there was no mention of socks. Nonetheless, whether Campbell was absent socks when Lynch left the scene, but wearing socks when her body was found is immaterial. We fail to see the relevance of the presence or absence of socks. Further, when Lynch left Campbell's home, Campbell was still on her porch. Even assuming there was some indication the victim was not then wearing socks, it does not mean she remained barefoot when she left to have coffee with Grim. Given this, all of the evidence connecting the victim to Grim's home, and the lack of evidence of a struggle in the victim's home, Grim has not established that counsel acted unreasonably or identified anything that undermines confidence in the outcome of the proceeding. For these reasons, we reject this claim.