Collins v. State

Summary

The Court affirmed the denial of Collins’s postconviction motion alleging ineffective assistance based on counsel’s handling of two eyewitness statements and a discrepancy between a photo array used at trial and the discovery copy. It held that the detective’s testimony explaining the eyewitness identifications was not an improper interpretive narrative, that the photo-array discrepancy caused no prejudice, and that counsel therefore was not constitutionally ineffective. The Court also deferred to the Superior Court’s factual findings concerning when the photo array was altered.