Pollard v. State

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Pollard’s Rule 37.1 petition without a hearing. It held that Pollard failed to establish either admissibility or outcome-changing prejudice from counsel’s failure to call two witnesses, and that his remaining claims were either unpreserved, improperly raised under the wrong procedural vehicle, or changed on appeal. The court applied clear-error review to the postconviction ruling and the two-part ineffective-assistance standard.