State Ex Rel. Vernatter v. Warden, West Virginia Penitentiary

Decided 1999-12-16

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MeGRAW, Justice: Appellant Roy David Vernatter appeals the circuit court’s refusal to grant him habe-as corpus relief on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, where his primary allegation was that trial counsel were ineffective in failing to have arranged for him to undergo a psychiatric examination prior to his pleading guilty to first-degree murder. We affirm the judgm…

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