The South Carolina Court docket of Appeals reversed a decrease court docket’s denial of a defendant’s post-conviction reduction motion, discovering his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the solicitor’s references to his “patterns of habits” throughout closing arguments.
The petitioner, Mack Washington Jr., appealed the denial of his PCR software attributable to his prior counsel’s failure to protect the problem of the solicitor’s references to “a sample” of felony conduct, which was neither within the report nor testified to by the defendant.