COURT OF APPEALS DECISION DATED AND FILED August 17, 2010 A.
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STATE OF WISCONSIN |
IN COURT OF APPEALS |
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DISTRICT I |
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State of Plaintiff-Respondent, v. William Demajor Rogers, Jr., Defendant-Appellant. |
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APPEAL
from a judgment and an order of the circuit court for
Before Curley, P.J., Fine and Kessler, JJ.
¶1 PER CURIAM. William Demajor Rogers,
Jr., appeals a judgment convicting him of first-degree reckless homicide while
armed, felon in possession of a firearm, and hiding a corpse. He also appeals an order denying his motion
to withdraw his plea or, in the alternative, for a new sentencing hearing.
¶2 To prove a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, a
defendant must show that counsel’s performance was deficient, and that the
deficient performance prejudiced the defense.
Strickland v.
¶3 A court need not address “both components of the inquiry if
the defendant makes an insufficient showing on one.” Strickland, 466
¶4 Rogers argues that his attorney was ineffective because he
did not raise the issue of Rogers’s competency until shortly before trial, and
he had only one doctor evaluate Rogers, who concluded that Rogers’s mental
state at the time the crime was committed did not support a plea of not guilty
by reason of mental disease or defect.
¶5
By the Court.—Judgment and order affirmed.
This opinion will not be published. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.23(1)(b)5. (2007-08).