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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Powell denies the prisoner's motion for release due to ineffective counsel. The prison was convicted of several crimes stemming from a home-invasion robbery with aggravated malicious wounding at his wife's boss's house. The prisoner argues his counsel should have argued for insanity rather than involuntary intoxication. Still, the record establishes that trial counsel made a thorough investigation of the law and facts and chose a course of action that they believed had the best chance of success. Affirmed.
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