Whether the courts erred in failing to grant the defendant a partial evidentiary hearing on challenges to the fourth and fifth convictions, particularly the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel

No question identified. : Question(s) 1. If the evidentiary hearing was based upon the challenges’ being time barred, yet the Appellate Court concurred that the fourth and fifth convictions were not time barred, is that not a failure of the courts to grant the defendant a partial evidentiary hearing for challenges to the fourth and fifth convictions and more particularly, on the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel being in plain error? (