I'm ineffective!

Alice White from the Kansas Defender Project won a 1507 motion in Mattox v. State, 07 C 816 (April 23, 2008) on grounds of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. I represented Mr. Mattox on his direct appeal from a Shawnee County second-degree murder conviction. The appeal included, among other issues, a couple of statement suppression issues. After winning at the COA, the KSC took review and reversed the COA in State v. Mattox, No. 89,547 (Kan. Dec. 9, 2005). Mr. Mattox, with the help of the Defender Project filed a 1507 motion claiming that I was ineffective because the KSC said that I abandoned one of the suppression issues that I had raised in the COA by insufficiently raising it in the pleadings to the KSC. Judge Parrish agreed and granted the motion.

Since I was a witness and former counsel, I will not comment one way or the other and simply leave it to the reader to review the decisions.