[Peace-discuss] Trial details

C. G. Estabrook galliher at uiuc.edu
Fri Jul 7 17:20:35 CDT 2006


Enough unhappiness for an appeal on ineffective assistance of counsel? 
I gather that they're not often successful.


Bob Illyes wrote:
> It was not argued as a police set-up. No information regarding the
> prior felony eavesdropping case was introduced.
> 
> Harvey Welsh did not exactly argue that the event did not occur, but
> rather that there was no convincing evidence that it had. Harvey failed
> to confront Staci Rahn regarding the fact that her testimony
> contradicted both the police report and her testimony at the prior
> trial. I don't even recall that he noted the fact. There is a lot of
> unhappiness regarding Harvey's performance.


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