Rademacher v. State

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of postconviction relief on both ineffective-assistance claims. It held counsel was not deficient for failing to investigate the vehicle's brakes because the record provided no reason to suspect a brake defect, and it declined to consider the newly asserted claim that no criminal-responsibility evaluation had occurred because that issue was not raised below. Although the district court failed to make findings addressing the claim concerning an independent criminal-responsibility evaluation, the court affirmed because Rademacher offered no evidence showing the evaluation would have produced a favorable result or changed the outcome.