State v. Davis

Summary

The court held that the trial court adequately addressed the defendant’s complaints about discovery, investigation, plea advice, and unspecified professional violations because those complaints were insubstantial. It further held that both trial judges had an affirmative duty to investigate the defendant’s clearly raised conflict-of-interest allegations, and that their failure to do so required a remand for an evidentiary determination of actual conflict and adverse effect. The court declined to decide the defendant’s remaining evidentiary claim at that stage.