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BURNS v. STATE

No. 77, 2012.

76 A.3d 780 (2013)

Robert H. BURNS, Jr., Defendant Below-Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff Below-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: September 25, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene J. Maurer, Jr., Esquire , of Wilmington, Delaware for Appellant.

Elizabeth R. McFarlan, Esquire , and Josette D. Manning, Esquire (argued), of the Department of Justice, Wilmington, Delaware for Appellee.

Before BERGER, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices.

RIDGELY, Justice.

Robert Burns was convicted by a Superior Court jury of several counts of varying degrees of sexual assault against children. We have affirmed Burns' conviction on direct appeal.1 Now, Burns seeks post-conviction relief and argues that he received inadequate assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Burns claims his trial counsel erred in the following ways: by not affirmatively...

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