Davis v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Davis’s convictions and sentence, holding that the evidence was constitutionally sufficient and rejecting his ineffective-assistance, jury-instruction, and prosecutorial-misconduct claims. Counsel’s investigation of the potential alibi was reasonable, and any failure to request a confession-corroboration instruction caused no prejudice because the confession was supported by substantial independent evidence. The instructional claim was unpreserved and did not satisfy plain error, while the prosecutorial-misconduct and disclosure claims either were unpreserved or failed for lack of suppression, favorable undisclosed evidence, or material prejudice.