
    2017 ND 235
    Derek Matthew WISHAM, Petitioner and Appellant v. STATE of North Dakota, Respondent and Appellee
    No. 20170164
    Supreme Court of North Dakota.
    Filed 10/17/2017
    Kiara C. Kraus-Parr, Grand Forks, ND, for petitioner and appellant.
    
      Brian D. Grosinger, Assistant State’s Attorney, Mandan, ND, for respondent and appellee.
   Per Curiam.

[¶ 1] Derek Wisham appealed from a district court order denying his application for post-conviction relief on the basis of ineffective assistance of counsel. The district court determined Wisham failed to present any evidence to satisfy the Strickland test for ineffective assistance of counsel. Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984). We summarily affirm under N.D.R.App.P. 85.1(a)(2). Broadwell v. State, 2014 ND 6, ¶ 7, 841 N.W.2d 750 (“Courts need not address both elements of the ineffective assistance of counsel test, and if a court can dispose of the case by addressing only one element, it is encouraged to do so.”).

[¶ 2]

Gerald W. VandeWalle, C.J.

Jon J. Jensen

Lisa Fair McEvers

Daniel J. Crothers

Jerod E. Tufte  