Opinion ID: 2570891
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 11

Heading: Ineffective assistance of trial counsel in criminal case.

Text: Row contends that her trial counsel was ineffective for failing to discover the criminal histories of the McHughs; for failing to object to the state's misrepresentations of evidence; for participating in conferences in chambers outside the presence of Row; for failing to adequately investigate Row's alleged brain damage; for failing to obtain experts to review the state's arson/murder investigation; for failing to present issues affecting the constitutionality of Row's death sentence; for failing to object to the submission of special verdicts to the jury; for allowing Row to make a statement in allocution without knowing that such statement would include incriminating admissions based upon hypnotic memory enhancement; and for failing to argue at trial that the court's determination that two statutory aggravating factors were established as a matter of law impermissibly shifted the court's responsibility to the jury. The court below properly dismissed these claims because Row failed to show that any of the claims were not known and could not reasonably have been known at the time she filed her first petition for post-conviction relief.