Michael Branham v. State of Tennessee

The Petitioner, Michael Branham, appeals the Hamilton County Criminal Court's denial of his petition for post-conviction relief from his conviction upon a guilty plea for aggravated assault, a Class C felony, for which he received a three-year sentence with split confinement. He contends that the proof at the post-conviction hearing established that he received the ineffective assistance of counsel, that the trial court failed to review the post-conviction hearing evidence under the standard established in United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (1984), and that the trial court committed plain error when it failed to address the issue of prosecutorial misconduct. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.