Alford v. State

Summary

The court dismissed Alford’s second petition seeking leave to pursue postconviction relief and denied his motion for appointment of counsel. It held that his ineffective-assistance, due-process, and jury-instruction claims neither established that the conviction was absolutely void nor supplied good cause for a successive petition. The court also held that the governing rule required all postconviction claims to be raised in the original petition unless that petition was denied without prejudice, which had not occurred here.