Opinion ID: 4677559
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Text: [¶25] The record compels a determination that, in the context of this case, trial counsel’s decision reflected representation that fell “below what might be expected from an ordinary fallible attorney,” Philbrook, 2017 ME 162, ¶ 7, 167 A.3d 1266. Because there is a reasonable probability that counsel’s error altered the result at trial, see Strickland, 466 U.S. at 694, Hodgdon is entitled to post-conviction relief from the sole remaining portion of the judgment of conviction. The entry is: Judgment vacated. Remanded for entry of a judgment granting Hodgdon’s petition for post-conviction review and vacating the remaining conviction (Count 5) of the underlying criminal judgment. Jeremy Pratt, Esq. (orally), and Ellen Simmons, Esq., Camden, for appellant Benjamin H. Hodgdon II Matthew J. Foster, District Attorney, and Eden S. Stuart, Asst. Dist. Atty. (orally), Prosecutorial District No. VII, Ellsworth, for appellee State of Maine Hancock County Unified Criminal Docket docket number CR-2017-1204 FOR CLERK REFERENCE ONLY