AC41763 - Ervin v. Commissioner of Correction (
“In this certified appeal from the habeas court’s denial of
his amended petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the petitioner, Michael
Ervin, claims that the court erred in rejecting his claim that his trial counsel
rendered ineffective assistance to him in his criminal trial for the murder of
his wife (victim) (1) by failing to call a defense pathologist to rebut the testimony
of the state’s chief medical examiner, Harold Wayne Carver, as to the cause of
the victim’s death and/or (2) by presenting an inadequate argument in support
of his motion for a judgment of acquittal. We affirm the judgment of the habeas
court”).