Clark v. State

Summary

The Court affirmed the denial of Clark’s first postconviction motion. It held that Clark could not establish prejudice from counsel’s failure to request a choice-of-evils instruction for the prohibited-person firearm charge because the jury’s verdict showed that it rejected his self-defense account. The Court also left undisturbed the lower court’s conclusion that Clark was not prejudiced by counsel’s stipulation that he was a person prohibited from possessing a firearm.