People v. Shipp

Defendant filed postconviction petition alleging ineffective assistance of trial counsel in that counsel failed to impeach detective with a prior inconsistent statement and failed to seek to admit as substantive evidence the police report containing prior inconsistent statement; and that appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to raise those issues on direct appeal. Trial counsel did impeach detective to the extent possible.Decisions whether to emphasize the difference between what detective said on direct and what he admitted on cross, and whether to offer police report as substantive evidence, were issues of trial strategy.(SCHOSTOK and BIRKETT, concurring.)